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Lak biabsolutives are raising structures
National Research University Higher School of Economics
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2016.
No. 46/LNG/2016.
Ganenkov D.
This article introduces new empirical data on the syntax of the biabsolutive construction in Lak that sheds new light on the analysis of this construction presented in Gagliardi et al. (2014). Some case-agreeing elements, such as compound anaphors, are shown to be able to bear ergative case despite the fact that no ergative DP is overtly present in the biabsolutive construction; this evidence necessitates a refinement of the structural analysis presented by Gagliardi et al., which precludes the possibility of ergative marking within the biabsolutive construction. I propose to capture the difference between ergative and biabsolutive constructions by exploiting a potential ambiguity in the content of the functional head Aux above AspP. On my account, the biabsolutive construction is understood as an instance of subject-to-subject raising with a reduced non-restructuring complement: the raising predicate ‘be involved in’ sits in Aux, assigning absolutive case to the closest DP in its c-command domain. All functional heads above AuxP thus bear gender agreement with the absolutive subject.
Ganenkov D., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2016. No. 51/LNG/2016.
The chapter deals with patterns of case marking and agreement in Mehweb. Based on morphosyntactic coding and binding, the system of five valency classes is described for Mehweb. The chapter covers basic monoclausal structures with verbs of the five valency classes as well as their interaction with several specific constructions, such as reciprocal, causative, and ...
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Dobrushina N., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016.
This paper describes the sociolinguistic situation of Mehweb, a lect of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian, in the Republic of Daghestan. In the course of several field trips to the village of Mehweb, sociolinguistic interviews were conducted in four neighbouring Avar - and Lak - speaking villages. The paper describes the demographic situation in ...
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Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2018
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Added: December 12, 2015
Lander Yu., RHEMA 2016 No. 2 P. 44-66
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Lander Yu., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2014. No. 12/LNG/2014.
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Netkachev I., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2019. No. 87.
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Nasledskova P., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2020. No. 98.
This paper presents a description of three classes of lexemes in Kina Rutul (Lezgic, East Caucasian): spatial adverbs, adverbial postpositions and postpositions proper. These classes overlap in majority of East Caucasian languages. I suggest criteria of distinguishing these classes of lexemes from each other. The description includes inflection of the lexemes, their etymology and syntactic ...
Added: December 10, 2020
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
The volume includes chapters devoted to various aspects of Caucasian languages. ...
Added: November 17, 2018
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Added: January 20, 2020
Daniel M., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2015.
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Aims and Objectives: We assess whether data on lexical borrowings obtained through field elicitation may point back not only to a specific donor language but also to its specific regional variety, and hence whether these data are a reliable tool for reconstructing unknown historical patterns of interaction between ethnic (sub-)groups.
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Махачкала : Дагестанский государственный университет, 2013
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