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This book gives the first detailed description of Kolyma Yukaghir, an endangered language spoken by about 50 people in the northeast of Asiatic Russia. It provides a description of all major components of Yukaghir grammar, phonology, morphology and syntax. It also includes some annotated sample texts and a Yukaghir-English vocabulary.

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"""In sum, this volume increases our knowledge of this Siberian 'isolate' quite considerably-especially of its syntax and discourse-related factors affecting morphosyntactic choises. It is a reference book that any general typologist or student of northern Eurasia should have within reach.""Micheal Fortescuein: Anthropological Linguistics 45, 3-2003"

In sum, this volume increases our knowledge of this Siberian 'isolate' quite considerably-especially of its syntax and discourse-related factors affecting morphosyntactic choises. It is a reference book that any general typologist or student of northern Eurasia should have within reach. Micheal Fortescuein: Anthropological Linguistics 45, 3-2003

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Elena Maslova teaches at the German Department of the University of Bielefeld, Germany and is a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

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