To browse Academia. Essays on the History of Language and Linguistics, Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics. Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Edited by M. Podolak, M. Pages 57β We conclude that nofi continues an analytic construction expressing collective numbers plus a converb and therefore historically should be better seen as a derivational suffix rather than as an autonomous lexical word, in spite of its synchronic status as measure word numeral classifier which is a result of Chinese influence.
This paper presents several Yeniseic loanwords in Tofalar. Artvin and its environs, located in the north-eastern corner of Anatolia, once was part of Tao-Klarjeti.
Furthermore, under the rule of the Bagrationi family Tao-Klarjeti played a crucial role in the unification process of the various Georgian principalities into one single monarchy, the Kingdom of Georgia sakartvelos samepo , in This outstanding era was followed first by a gradual but steady political decline and later by the disintegration of the Georgian State, in particular caused by the rapidly expanding powers of the East, i. In , Tao-Klarjeti was finally conquered by the Ottomans.
Almost all of its territory β with exception of a Russian intermezzo of about 43 years after the Russian-Turkish war of β β has been a part of the Turkish state up to the present day. On the following pages, I will shed some light on a small number of toponyms, which reflect the Georgian past of the Artvin area, and have a closer look at their use, their meanings and their etymologies.
In the beginning of the Manual there were five series of articles, which became direct or indirect impulses for the origin of the book. In the present monograph the geolinguistic and demographic information from the articles is replaced by the most recent data from the 21st edition of Ethnologue , and classifications, tables of phonetic correspondences and bibliographic data are significantly expanded, updated, and supplemented by the sections devoted to development of comparative phonetics in Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and finally Altaic.
