ABSTRACT
Anatolia, or Asia Minor, hosted languages from various phyla (Urartian, Indo-European, Semitic, Kartvelian, Turkic). The relevance of modern Anatolia for contact linguistics came to light since Dawkins’ Asia Minor Greek’s description as a mixed language (1916), albeit the question whether it is a Sprachbund or not is still debated. Candidate features for contact-induced change are stops inventory, syllable structure, vowel harmony, reduplication patterns, as well as paradigm alignment regarding category inventory (admirative, gender) or morphology (prefix-marked indicative), word order and its correlates. Anatolia has instigated debate about the validity of the available models of contact-induced change and the relative weight of structural congruence and universal typological tendencies.
