Ebook: The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur

Göttingen: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, - 353 p., ISBN 3-447-05233-3This volume presents a synchronic description of the phonology, morphology and lexicon of the Turfan dialect of modern Uyghur, which is mainly spoken in the Turfan region of the present Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, and is based for the most part on linguistic data collected during fieldwork from 1990 to 2000 The main research was carried out between 2001 and 2003 while I was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Mainz, Germany.