International conference proceedings, Mainz, 1997 and 1998.

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual langua

The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from southern Iran to the Arctic Ocean and from the Balkans to the great wall of Ch

The volume contains contributions on contact-induced language change in situations in which one of the languages is a Turkic one. Most papers deal with cases of

The volume in the field of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic contact linguistics, is the first of its kind, providing a summary of the present results of this dynamic