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Deriving affix ordering in polysynthesis: Evidence from Adyghe
Morphology. 2010. Vol. 20. No. 2. P. 299-319.
Korotkova N., Lander Yury
This article deals with the order of verbal suffixes in Adyghe, a polysynthetic language of the Caucasus. Traditionally the structure of the Adyghe word form and the order of its affixes were described in terms of template morphology. However, we present new data demanding another, substantially different approach. We demonstrate that for the most part suffix ordering within the Adyghe verb follows strictly compositional rules. This feature is a manifestation of the polysynthetic nature of the language.
М. : РГГУ, 2009
Сборник включает статьи, посвященные анализу структуры полисинтетического адыгейского языка с типологической точки зрения. ...
Added: February 7, 2013
Lander Yu., Studies in Language 2017 Vol. 41 No. 1 P. 76-98
The paper presents a description and an analysis of the nominal complex, a peculiar construction which includes a noun and its modifiers, in West Circassian, a polysynthetic language of the Northwest Caucasian family. The nominal complex shows properties of a single word and tends to follow the template proposed for the word in West Circassian. ...
Added: August 8, 2016
Lander Y., Bagirokova I., Рема 2021 № 1 С. 56-75
West Circassian displays two types of cilitive (facilitive ‘easy’ and difficilitive ‘difficult’) forms, namely noun cilitives, which describe individuals, and secondary cilitives, which describe the state of affairs. Secondary cilitives seemingly originate from noun cilitives, hence the same cilitive suffixes mark forms that are remarkably different from each other in their morphosyntax. While noun cilitives ...
Added: October 26, 2020
Lander Yu., Arkhangelskiy T., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 23/LNG/2015.
This paper describes a pilot experiment which was conducted by the authors with speakers of the polysynthetic West Circassian (Adyghe) language and aimed at investigating their ability to use complex verb forms that cross-reference several arguments introduced by applicative morphology. The results of the experiment support the view that complex polysynthetic words can be constructed ...
Added: April 10, 2015
Lander Y., Bagirokova I., Syntaxe et Sémantique 2022 Vol. 22 No. 1 P. 57-81
West Circassian has no less than two imperatives and two optatives. Their distribution depends on various parameters such as the speaker’s control over the situation, the person of the topic and the type of a predicate. The whole system arguably can be described with respect to the universal Imperative Prototype, which reflects grammaticalization of a ...
Added: October 26, 2020
Lander Y., Сумбатова Н. Р., В кн. : Кавказский лингвистический сборник. Вып. 18.: М. : Academia, 2007. С. 77-103.
The paper discusses two markers of negation in Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian). It is argued that their distribution has functional rather than formal motivation. ...
Added: May 1, 2014
Bagirokova I., Lander Y., Томский журнал лингвистических и антропологических исследований 2016 № 2 (12) С. 9-19
The paper deals with functioning of the analytical additive marker əčʼjə̣ / jəčʼjə̣ in the Temirgoy dialect of West Circassian (also known as Adyghe) and the Kuban dialect of Kabardian and analyses some morphosyntactic parameters, which serve to differentiate its various functions. According to the hypothesis we propose, the marker əčʼjə̣ / jəčʼjə̣ , which ...
Added: July 20, 2016
Lander Yu., RHEMA 2016 No. 2 P. 44-66
This paper provides the description of the universal concessive conditional (UCC) construction in the Kuban dialect of Kabardian, an ergative polysynthetic language of the Northwest Caucasian family. The Kabardian UCC construction involves a subordinate clause which is marked with a combination of the conditional and additive markers and obligatorily contains an interrogative pronoun with free ...
Added: August 8, 2016
Lander Y., Вестник РГГУ. Серия: История. Филология. Культурология. Востоковедение 2015 № 1 С. 7-31
This paper discusses the morphological and syntactic means of expression of participants in morphology and syntax of West Circassian (Adyghe) focusing on the argument vs adjunct characteristics of these means. West Circassian provide evidence for the non-discretness of the argument/adjunct contrast but also shows the necessity to distinguish between argument/adjunct properties in morphological expressions and ...
Added: March 23, 2015
Bagirokova I., Lander Y., Moroz G., В кн. : IV Международный симпозиум лингвистов-кавказоведов. Вопросы структуры основы и корня иберийско-кавказских языков. : Тб. : [б.и.], 2015. С. 107-110.
В работе анализируются разные подходы к выделению основы в адыгейском языке. ...
Added: December 3, 2015
Аркадьев П. М., Durneva S., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2019 Т. 2 № 1 С. 28-48
In this article we describe reflexivization strategies in Abaza (Northwest
Caucasian), a polysynthetic language characterized by consistent head
marking and morphological ergativity. Abaza features three reflexivization
strategies: (i) the specialized reflexive prefix čə- used to reflexivize the absolutive argument, (ii) doubling of person-number prefixes, used to reflexivize
indirect objects with transitive verbs, and (iii) the lexical reflexive based on
the ...
Added: December 14, 2019
Lander Yu., , in : Word Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe. Vol. 5.: Berlin, NY : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. Ch. 193. P. 3508-3527.
The chapter provides the general description of word formation in Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian). Adyghe is a highly polysynthetic language with a very weak distinction between nouns and verbs. Compounding and affixation (including both suffixation and prefixation) are widespread. Morphological means often allow recursion and the order of morphemes depends on the semantics to a large extent. ...
Added: October 15, 2013
Lander Yu., Testelets Y., , in : The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. P. 948-970.
Adyghe, a polysynthetic language of the West Caucasian family, shows the typological characteristics of ergativity, left-branching word order, and the flexibility of the lexical categories. Its word has a high degree of morphological complexity and consists of five ordered morphological zones, within which the order of affixes can vary, and recursion is possible. The information ...
Added: April 10, 2015
Lander Y., Testelets Y., Вопросы языкознания 2007 № 6 С. 134-138
Рецензия на двухтомное описание кабардино-черкесского языка. ...
Added: May 1, 2014
Bagirokova I., Lander Y., В кн. : IV Международный симпозиум лингвистов-кавказоведов. Вопросы структуры основы и корня иберийско-кавказских языков. : Тб. : [б.и.], 2015. С. 104-106.
В работе показывается, что вопреки ранее принятому мнению в адыгейском языке существует инкорпорация имени в глагол. ...
Added: December 3, 2015
Arkadiev P., Lander Yu., Snippets 2013 No. 27 P. 5-7
The squib discusses certain unexpected properties of nominals containing distributive universal quantifiers in Besleney Kabardian such as their capacity to appear as clausal predicates and their similarities to plural nominals. ...
Added: October 15, 2013
Koshevoy A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018. No. 75/LNG/2018.
This paper deals with the productive morphological causative r(ə)- in Abaza (Northwest Caucasian), a highly polysynthetic ergative language. We discuss the causativization process in Abaza as well as the semantic properties of the construction and elaborate an analysis of the event structure of the Abaza morphological causatives based on the scope of adverbials. ...
Added: December 16, 2018
Panova A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018. No. 70/LNG/2018.
This paper describes a group of derivational verbal suffixes in Abaza, a polysynthetic language belonging to the Northwest Caucasian family. For each suffix I propose a short description of its most remarkable features. In particular, I discuss the polysemy of the refactive and assertive markers and their interaction with the event structure of the verb. ...
Added: December 14, 2018
Lander Y., Bagirokova I., Journal of Linguistics 2021
In this paper we argue for the existence of an asymmetric parts-of-speech system where nouns constitute a separate word class but do not form any non-privative contrast with other content parts of speech. As a result, in a system of this kind there is no need to distinguish verbs even though there are good reasons ...
Added: October 26, 2020
Lander Yu., Daniel M., Linguistics 2019 Vol. 57 No. 6 P. 1239-1270
In polysynthetic West Caucasian languages, the morphological verbal complex amounts to a clause, with all kinds of participants cross-referenced by affixes. Relativization is performed by introducing a relative affix in the cross-reference slot which corresponds to the relativized participant. However, these languages display several cross-linguistically rare features of relativization. Firstly, while under the view of ...
Added: June 28, 2018
Düzce : Düzce University, 2016
The volume includes papers presented at the international symposium "Adyghe Philology". ...
Added: August 16, 2017
Герасимов Д. В., Lander Y., В кн. : Исследования по глагольной деривации. : М. : Языки славянских культур, 2008. С. 290-313.
It is argued that in Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian) some complement constructions actually include a relative clause where the target of the relativization is a factive argument introduced with dedicated applicative morphology. ...
Added: September 26, 2013
Klyagina E., Panova A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2019. No. 89/LNG/2019.
Phasal polarity (PhP) is a cross-linguistic category which includes such values as ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ, ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴇᴛ, sᴛɪʟʟ and ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ. This paper discusses morphologically bound markers of phasal polarity in Abaza, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language. We show that the Abaza PhP affixes ‑χ’a ‘already’, -s (+ negation) ‘not yet’, -rḳʷa ‘still’ and -χ (+ negation) ...
Added: December 14, 2019
Lander Y., Arkhangelskiy T., Bagirokova I., В кн. : Кавказская филология: история и перспективы. К 90-летию Мухадина Абубекировича Кумахова: сборник научных статей. : Нальчик : ИГИ КБНЦ РАН, 2019. С. 198-206.
The paper deals with concepts and formal conventions which are accepted for the West Circassian electronic corpus by its authors. The ideas discussed here are induced by the specifics of automatic morphological parsing of West Circassian texts required for grammatical annotation of morphemes and word forms. ...
Added: July 16, 2019