Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry "
Cathcart, Chundra Aroor Garrett, Andrew

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	898389
Doc. No	:	TL5pv6f9g9
Main Entry	:	Gardner, Amy Harriet
Title & Author	:	Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry\ Cathcart, Chundra AroorGarrett, Andrew
Date	:	2015
student score	:	2015
Abstract	:	This dissertation investigates the forces at work in the formation of a tightly knit but ultimately non-genetic dialect group. The Iranian languages, a genetic sub-branch of the larger Indo-European language family, are a group whose development has been profoundly affected by millennia of internal contact. This work is concerned with aspects of the diversification and disparification (i.e., the development of different versus near-identical features across languages) of this group of languages, namely issues pertaining to the development of the so-called West Iranian group, whose status as a legitimate genetic subgroup has long remained unclear. To address the phenomena under study, I combine a traditional comparative-historical approach with existing quantitative methods as well as newly developed quantitative methods designed to deal with the sort of linguistic situation that Iranian typifies. The studies I undertake support the idea that West Iranian is not a genetic subgroup, as sometimes assumed; instead, similarities between West Iranian languages that give the impression of close genetic relatedness have come about due to interactions between contact and parallel driftlike tendencies. I develop new methodologies which make it possible to demonstrate which similarities are due to contact and which are due to drift.
Added Entry	:	Cathcart, Chundra Aroor
Added Entry	:	UC Berkeley