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The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
Oxford :
Oxford University Press, 2020.
Editor-in-chief: Polinsky M.
The volume includes chapters devoted to various aspects of Caucasian languages.
Ganenkov D., Maisak T., , in : The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. Ch. 3. P. 87-145.
This chapter provides an overview of the basic properties of the languages of the Nakh-Dagestanian (East Caucasian) family. Given the size of the family, we cannot cover even the most typical features in full here, let alone describe details of the variation that exists. Likewise, we cannot do full justice to all individual languages or even branches within the ...
Added: October 27, 2020
Arkadiev P., Lander Yu., , in : The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. P. 369-446.
This chapter presents an overview of the Northwest Caucasian (West Caucasian, Abkhaz-Adyghe) family. ...
Added: November 17, 2018
Dobrushina N., Daniel M., Koryakov Y., , in : The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. Ch. 1. P. 27-66.
This chapter provides a sociolinguistic account of the languages of the Caucasus, including figures for speakers and their geographical distribution, language vitality, the official status of the languages, orthography, and writing practices. The chapter discusses language repertoires typical of different areas in the Caucasus, and their change over the 20th century. As a showcase, it ...
Added: August 30, 2020
Koryakov Y., , in : The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. P. 1083-1090.
In this chapter, Transliteration tables is provided for major written languages of Caucasus using Cyrillic. ...
Added: November 10, 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
Lander Yu., Maisak T., Iran and the Caucasus 2021 Vol. 25 No. 3 P. 272-283
Udi (East Caucasian) possesses several means of expressing the meaning ‘other’, namely (i) the combination of a (usually distal) demonstrative with a numeral (usually ‘one’), arguably calqued from Azerbaijani, (ii) the expression originating from a combination of a demonstrative with the noun ‘arm, side’ and (iii) borrowed adjectives. It is shown that the morphological properties ...
Added: June 13, 2020
Lander Yu., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016. No. 47/LNG/2016.
In this paper, I consider the syntactic property of the Mehweb predicative marker gʷa. This is a particle that serves as a finite predicate, supplementing the auxiliary in periphrastic form - a phenomenon attested in a number of East Caucasian languages. What is less common - or at least less documented - are the rules ...
Added: December 10, 2016
М. : Academia, 2008
The volume includes papers devoted to various aspects of grammar, lexicon and history of Udi, a Northeast Caucasian language originally spoken in Northern Azerbaijan. ...
Added: May 1, 2014
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., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2014. No. 12/LNG/2014.
In Dargwa languages, which constitute a branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family, certain nominal attributes may be either marked with a dedicated attributive suffix or appear without it. While it is sometimes said that the short form of the modifier serves as a base for deriving the full form, I propose an alternative direction ...
Added: March 24, 2014
Lander Yu., Kozhukhar A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 34/LNG/2015.
East Caucasian relative clause constructions (RCCs) are thought by some to be constructed mainly on the basis of semantic and pragmatic information and not to elaborate on the syntax of the relative clause. In this paper, we consider RCCs in one of the East Caucasian languages, namely Mehweb Dargwa, and argue that, despite the fact ...
Added: December 12, 2015
Moroz G., Вестник Московского государственного гуманитарного университета им. М.А. Шолохова. Филологические науки 2014 № 1 С. 85-100
This paper contains the findings from the areal and typological research of the systems of cardinal numeral in the languages of the Caucasus. It is based on the structural analysis (which isn’t a phonetic or etymological comparison) of the numeral systems in the languages of the three autochthonic language families of the Caucasus (Kartvelian, East ...
Added: June 23, 2014
Daniel M., Lander Yu., , in : The Languages and Linguistics of Europe. A Comprehensive Guide. Vol. 1.: Berlin, Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. P. 125-157.
If anything, Europe’s linguistically most exotic area is the Caucasus. In terms of linguistic density it is the subcontinent’s New Guinea. Languages of Western, Central and Eastern Europe are less typologically diverse – and not much more numerous – than the languages spoken in its southeastern corner. Three “endemic” language families are spoken here, South ...
Added: February 5, 2013
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 Y., Maisak T., Iran and the Caucasus 2022 Vol. 26 No. 3 P. 272-288
The paper describes expressions with the meaning ‘other’ in East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) languages. It is shown that four main strategies can be distinguished: i) the ‘one’-based strategy: ‘other’ includes the numeral ‘one’; ii) the demonstrative-based strategy: ‘other’ includes a demonstrative pronoun; iii) the mixed demonstrative-based + ‘one’-based strategy: ‘other’ includes both a demonstrative and the ...
Added: June 13, 2020
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., 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., 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 Y., Testelets Y., Вопросы языкознания 2007 № 6 С. 134-138
Рецензия на двухтомное описание кабардино-черкесского языка. ...
Added: May 1, 2014
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 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
Verhees S., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология 2018 № 57 С. 110-123
The paper considers the grammatical expression of information source with past tense forms of the verb in the Nakh-Daghestanian languages. These languages are spoken on a relatively compact territory in the North Caucasus and, partly, in the Transcaucasian area. The area is part of a larger area ranging from the Balkan Peninsula to Central Asia, ...
Added: September 19, 2018
Bagirokova I., Баранова А. И., Lander Y., Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология» 2020 № 7 С. 84-106
Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian) displays two associative plural constructions. The first pattern exploits the suffix which is also used for the expression of additive plural: it is added to proper names and normally provides a reference to the family of the focal referent. Within the second pattern, a specific associative plural marker follows a syntactically autonomous ...
Added: October 8, 2019
Lander Y., Linguistics 2022 Vol. 60 No. 3 P. 809-828
This paper focuses on the noun phrase in Tanti Dargwa (East Caucasian) and presents evidence for the distinction between modifiers proper (adjectival phrases, participial relative clauses and non-genitive adnominal NPs) and determiner-like elements (demonstratives, indefinite pronouns, numerals and most quantity expressions) in this language. Crucially, this dichotomy, which presumably reflects the distinction between the determinative ...
Added: February 20, 2022
Сумбатова Н. Р., Lander Y., М. : Языки славянской культуры, 2014
The book describes the Dargwa variety spoken in the village of Tanti (Central Daghestan) and consists of a grammatical sketch and a few chapters devoted to specific aspects of grammar. The variety discussed in the vook shows complex systems of nominal and verbal inflection as well as a number of other non-trivial features. The book ...
Added: March 23, 2015
Lander Y., В кн. : Когнитивная парадигма языкового сознания в современной лингвистике: Материалы Международной научной конференции 13-14 октября 2011 года. : Майкоп : Издательство Адыгейского государственного университета, 2011. С. 101-106.
We discuss the data from Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian), Udi and Tanti Dargwa (Northeast Caucasian) related to the presence and absence of constraints on relativization from syntactic islands. ...
Added: October 25, 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