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The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and
Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to
typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as
cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the
disparate languages spoken in this area actually are. Individual articles
discuss borrowing and language replacement, as well as compare the
development of language subsystems, such as numeral words in Ket and
Selkup. Three of the articles also discuss the historical and
anthropological origins of the tribes of this area. The book deals with
linguistics from the vantage of both historical anthropology as well as
diachronic and synchronic linguistic structure. The editor's introduction
offers a concise summary of the diverse languages of this area, with
attention to both their differences and similarities. A major feature
uniting them is their mutual interaction with the unique Yeniseic language
family – the only group in North Asia outside the Pacific Rim that does not
belong to Uralic or Altaic. Except for the papers by Anderson and Harrison,
all of the articles were originally written in Russian and they are made
available in English here for the first time.
Table of contents
Editor’s foreword
Edward J. Vajda vii
I. The languages of Central Siberia
Introduction and overview
Gregory D.S. Anderson 1
II. Yeniseic linguistics
Yeniseic counting systems
Heinrich Werner 123
Patterns of plural formation in Kott nouns and adjectives
Telmina I. Porotova 129
On distinguishing loanwords from the original Proto-Yeniseic lexicon
Lyudmila G. Timonina 135
Incorporation and word formation in Ket
Zoya V. Maksunova 143
III. Selkup linguistics
Morphological reanalysis in the Selkup verb
Nadezhda G. Kuznetsova 151
Synonymy, allomorphy, and free variation in Selkup derivational suffixes
E.V. Zyrjanova 157
The Selkup worldview as reflected in basic number words
Valentina V. Bykonja 161
Selkup-Ket parallels in ritual and spiritual terminology
Alexandra Kim-Maloney 169
IV. South Siberian Turkic linguistics
Shaman and bear: Siberian prehistory in two Middle Chulym texts
Gregory D.S. Anderson and K. David Harrison 179
South Siberian sound symbolism
K. David Harrison 197
Linguistic reflections of Xakas ethnohistory
Viktor Ja. Butanaev 212
V. Archeological perspectives on Central Siberian language groups
Cultural origins of the taiga-dwelling peoples of the Middle Yenisei
N.P. Makarov and M.S. Batashev 233
Sunken earth dwellings as evidence of a Paleoasiatic substrate among the Ket
A.V. Razinkin 249
Prehistoric cultural links along the Yenisei: Revelations from a bronze idol
Roman V. Nikolaev 257
Index 265
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