Abdurehim Esmael. The Lopnor dialect of Uyghur: a descriptive analysis

Academic dissertation — Helsinki: University of Helsinki Printing House (Unigrafia), 2014. — 227 p. — Publications of the Institute for Asian and African Studies 17 — ISBN: 9789515103840In this corpus-based study, I have developed a comprehensive grammatical description of the Lopnor dialect of Uyghur, which is endangered Turkic variety spoken in the northwestern part of China. This dissertation consists of a descriptionof the phonology, morphology and syntax ofthe Lopnor dialect. This study is based on several field trips to the Lopnor region of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. All examples in dissertation are taken from the texts which I am going to publish on the online corpus.