Turkic Languages / 25,2 / Turkic Languages 25 (2021) 2

The journal Turkic Languages is devoted to linguistic Turcology. It addresses descriptive, comparative, synchronic, diachronic, theoretical, and methodological problems of the study of Turkic languages including questions of genetic, typological and areal relations, linguistic variation, and language acquisition. The journal aims at presenting work of current interest on a variety of subjects, and thus welcomes contributions on all aspects of Turkic language studies. It contains articles, review articles, reviews, discussions, reports, and surveys of publications.The journal uses a double blind review system in selecting articles for publication. The preferred language of publication is English.From the contents (altogether 9 contributions):Igor V. Kormushin, On the mixed character of the Old Turkic literary language of the 7th-8th centuriesSvetlana M. Prokopieva et.al., Phraseological units with a bird-name component in Yakut and KazakhYui Suzuki, An analysis of the non-past use of Turkish {-DI}Mehmet Akkus & Çigdem Sagin-Simsek, Interjections as signals of mutual intelligibility in Turkish-Azeri receptive multilingual communicationLaurentia Schreiber et.al., Contact-induced change in the morphosyntax of Turkic in Boldaji, Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, IranCem Keskin, Sey-substitution and constituent structure in TurkishMine Güven, Spoken Turkish in television news and debates: Some acoustic and morphological aspects relevant to respeaking