{"id":1759,"date":"2011-09-16T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2011-09-12T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T06:41:33","slug":"crimean-tatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Crimean Tatar"},"content":{"rendered":"
Crimean Tatar<\/strong>. By Darya Kavitskaya<\/strong>. (Languages of the world\/materials 477). Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2010. Pp. v, 129. ISBN 9783895866906<\/a>. $82.82.<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Mikael Thompson<\/a><\/strong>, Bloomington, IN<\/em><\/p>\n

Drawing on the author\u2019s fieldwork, this book is the first full description in English of Crimean Tatar, a Kipchak Turkic language spoken primarily in Crimea and Uzbekistan. In 1944 Crimean Tatar speakers were forcibly removed from Crimea to several locations in Central Asia and Russia and only allowed to return in the 1990s; Kavitskaya devotes space to the sociolinguistic situation of the three contemporary dialects, which have been influenced by Russian and by other Turkic languages, primarily Uzbek.<\/p>\n

The book is organized in the usual fashion, beginning with phonology (4\u201333, including sections on orthography and phonetics). Lengthy sections on morphology (33\u201384) and syntax (84\u2013117) are followed by a short discussion of the lexicon primarily devoted to the sources of loanwords in the three dialects (117\u201319). Three texts (one in each of the dialects, 120\u201326) and a bibliography (127\u201329) round out the book. Examples are presented for all points of discussion with full glosses and translations.<\/p>\n

On the whole, Crimean Tatar is a typical Turkic language. Like most other Turkic languages, Crimean Tatar has palatal vowel harmony with associated consonantal allophony (whose consistency is obscured somewhat by loanwords), and it has also developed rounding harmony. Notably, however, rounding harmony is restricted to the first two syllables of the word in the central and northern dialects, though preserved in the southern dialect (25\u201327). Also worthy of note is the development of palatalized consonants that appear to be marginally contrastive with their non-palatalized counterparts in the central and northern dialects, through secondary split caused by the backing of front rounded vowels in some words (14\u201317). Crimean Tatar morphology and syntax will hold few surprises for a reader who is already familiar with a Turkic language, and K\u2019s exposition is clear and detailed.<\/p>\n

There are some lapses on the editorial side. Most significantly, the text refers (3) to a map of the region where Crimean Tatar is spoken that is in fact omitted from the book. Also, two references cited in the text are missing from the bibliography, and conversely a number of works listed in the bibliography do not appear to be cited. There are occasional misspellings, of which inconsistent transcriptions of authors\u2019 names in the bibliography and the text are the most important. However, the data fit in with this reviewer\u2019s experience of other Turkic languages and no obvious errors were found. This book is recommended for all Turkologists and interested linguists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crimean Tatar. By Darya Kavitskaya. (Languages of the world\/materials 477). Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2010. Pp. v, 129. ISBN 9783895866906. $82.82. Reviewed by Mikael Thompson, Bloomington, IN Drawing on the author\u2019s fieldwork, this book is the first full description in English of Crimean Tatar, a Kipchak Turkic language spoken primarily in Crimea and Uzbekistan. In 1944 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}