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Проблемы сравнительно-исторического изучения языка кашмири Проблемы сравнительно-исторического изучения языка кашмири
Проблемы сравнительно-исторического изучения языка кашмири Проблемы сравнительно-исторического изучения языка кашмири

Kogan Anton

Problems of Comparative and Historical Study of the Kashmiri Language


Еditor: Yakubovich Ilya

Москва, 2016, 208 p.

Kashmiri is a language of the Dardic group, most thoroughly researched from the synchronic point of view but very poorly studied diachronically. The author of themonograph makes at attempt to improve this situation. The book deals with a number of separate, but closely related problems, viz. historical phonological innovations in the vowel, affricate, and sibilant systems; formal criteria for detecting Indo-Aryan borrowings; genetic relations between standard Kashmiri and certain idioms traditionally classified as Kashmiri dialects; the position of Kashmiri in the genealogical classification of Dardic languages. The author also discusses the question of applicability of the regular philological method for historical study to the Kashmiri material. The results of the research may be of interest not only to historical linguists, but also to experts in some allied branches of science, e.g. to historians and ethnographers.

Content

Introduction……………………………………...…………………………………7
Chapter I. Diachronic study of the Kashmiri language and the regular philological
method. On old Kashmiri written texts………………………………………...…15
Chapter II. On certain sound changes in Kashmiri and their relative
chronology……………………………………………………………………..….34
II.1. Regressive vowel assimilation, rise of umlaut and concomitant
consonantal changes……………………………………………………..…35
II.2. The Kashmiri affricate shift…...……………………………..………..42
II.3. Early Kashmiri affricate system, its structure and stages of
formation…………………………………………………………………...47
II.4. The Kashmiri sibilant shift……………………………………………60
II.5. Conclusion…………………………………………………………….63
Chapter III. On the nature of Indo-Aryan elements in the Kashmiri
language…………………………………………………………………………..65
Chapter IV. Some issues of Kashmiri dialectology……………………………..101
IV.1. On the genetic position of the so-called “mixed Kashmiri dialects”.102
IV.2. On genetic relationship between Standard Kashmiri and Poguli and
Kashtawari dialects………………………………………………………122
IV.2.1. On the origin of voiced aspirates in Poguli and Kashtawari
dialects………...……………………………………………………123
IV.2.2. Kashmiri sibilant and affricate shift and the Poguli
dialect..........................................................................................................131
Chapter V. The genetic position of Kashmiri in the Dardic group and the problem
of East Dardic sub-branch……………………………………………………….134
V.1. Major hypotheses concerning genealogical classification of Dardic
languages: a critical review…………………...…………………………..135
V.2. The problem of East Dardic unity from the point-of-view of historical
phonology…………………………………………………………………144
V.3. The problem of East Dardic unity from the point-of-view of
lexicostatistics……………………………………………………………..168
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….182
Abbreviations……………………………………………………………………187
References……………………………………………………………..………..189
Appendix. Swadesh lists………………………………………………..……….197
100-item Swadesh list of the Siraji dialect…………………………..………….197
100-item Swadesh list of Dardic languages and dialects……………………….198

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