Siberian Languages in Contact, 1: Collective Numerals in Yakut, Dolgan, Tuvinian, Tofalar 1and Some Other Turkic Languages*
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Morphological categories of Siberian Turkic numerals are particularly complex and therefore deemed to be especially advantageous to areal investiga tions. The aim of this paper is to see whether (at least some of) the suffixes of collective numerals can readily be used as isogloss connecting Yakut and Dolgan with Tuvinian and Tofalar or, maybe, also some other Turkic languages.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011