The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures : : Vol. 1 / / ed. by Gerd Carling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• HerausgeberIn: Carling, Gerd,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXXII, 728 p.) :; approx.150 maps

The notion of cultural aspects of language variation and change is a growing field. However, collective works on the current stance within this domain are still scarce. The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures embraces a substantial part of the Eurasian continent and equips the reader to better ob...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contributors
• Funding and support
• Abbreviations
• Orthographic conventions for Caucasian languages
• Overview of conventions
• Overview of tables
• Overview of figures
• Overview of maps
• Overview of appendices
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical backdrop: words, things, and humans in their environment
• 3. Language: classification, reconstruction, and principles of change
• 4. Description of the database Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics
• 5. Atlas: Grammar
• 6. Atlas: Lexicon
• 7. Concluding chapter: an integrated view of the linguistic and cultural histories of Eurasia
• Literature
• Appendix 1: Languages of the current atlas
• Appendix 2a: Grammar: Features, complete list (from DiACL)
• Appendix 2b: Grammar: State combinations
• Appendix 2c: Grammar: State combinations in languages
• Appendix 2d: Grammar: Solutions 1–10 by Structure
• Appendix 3a: Lexicon: list of concepts, coverage by family
• Appendix 3b: Lexical data
• Appendix 3c: Lexical data: statistics
• Appendix 3d: Lexicon: Source language data, flow map
• Appendix 4a: Language consultants
• Appendix 4b: Literary sources
• Appendix 4c: Geographical sources
• Map Credits
• Index