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Phonology of Mehweb
Ch. 3. P. 17–37.
In this paper, I describe the phonetic inventory of Mehweb, consonants and vowels, as well as the main productive alternations. Two separate sections treat the rules of syllable placement and gives a preliminary treatment of pharyngealization. In Mehweb, pharyngealization is a feature which extends the basic vowel inventory [i, e, a, u] to include [oˁ] (the pharyngealized variant of [u], along with pharyngealized [iˁ, eˁ, aˁ]) and the inventory of radical consonants by the process of epiglottalization (where [ʡ] is a pharyngealized variant of [ʔ] and [ʜ] is a pharyngealized variant of [ħ]).
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Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019.
Maisak T., Word Structure 2026 Vol. 19 No. 2-3 P. 338–367
In a situation when two or more grammaticalization targets in one language are phonologically identical but functionally distinct, neither polygrammaticalization nor accidental syncretism can be ruled out, especially if we are dealing with a language without historical attestations. In the present paper, I present a detailed account of the coexistence of two homophonous grammatical markers ...
Added: July 9, 2026
Maisak T., Transactions of the Philological Society 2026 Vol. 124 No. 2 P. 386–427
This paper presents a first typological study of a particular type of imperative interjections, namely interjections with the meaning ‘here, take it!’ used by a speaker when they ask the addressee to take something from the speaker's hands (often combined with a gesture of giving). The sample of languages is both geographically and genealogically restricted ...
Added: July 9, 2026
Medushevsky K., , in: Двадцать вторая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 27–29 ноября 2025 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2025. P. 157–160.
Added: January 18, 2026
Poliakova E., RHEMA. РЕМА 2024 № 1 С. 28–60
Equasimilative constructions belong to the semantic field of comparison,
but have been studied to a much less extent than comparative constructions.
There are practically no areal-typological studies in this area. This paper focuses on equasimilative constructions in Khwarshi proper (Nakh-Dagestanian).
Additionally, it provides an overview of equasimilative constructions
in the languages of the Caucasus to determine the parameters that ...
Added: November 16, 2025
Filatov K., Томский журнал лингвистических и антропологических исследований 2025 № 4(50) С. 75–86
The article is dedicated to the typology of temporal mobility, that is the ability of verbal forms to have temporal opposition. Based on several Andic languages (< Avar-Andic-Tsezic < Nakh-Dagestanian), two formal subtypes of temporal mobility are introduced. The first subtype, — symmetric mobility, assumes that the basic and the past forms are equally marked, ...
Added: August 21, 2025
Pavel Belov, Alexandra Shikunova, , in: Двадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей: тезисы докладов.: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2023.
Added: November 24, 2024
Sieber I., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2024 № 90 С. 26–50
Typological studies on sound change, palatalization and consonant harmony consider lateral consonants among liquids and do not pay much attention to lateral fricatives. The researchers show that palatalization transforms lateral sonorants to j or rhotics, whereas lateral fricatives receive only “secondary” palatalization, or additional articulation of palatalization. In this paper, I focus on several cases ...
Added: October 3, 2024
Maisak T., Verhees S., Folia Linguistica 2024 Vol. 58 No. s45-s1 P. 185–220
Andi (East Caucasian) features a verb form that marks an event that is (still) not happening, contrary to the speaker’s expectation (i.e. ‘Still Not’ Present). This form is unusual for several reasons. First, forms of this kind are not typical for the language family. Second, while it conveys negative semantics, the form does not contain ...
Added: September 3, 2024
Buzanov A., Egorov I., Molchanov V., Ural-Altaic Studies 2023 No. 51 P. 7–26
The aim of this paper is to present a revision of the phonological system of Kildin Saami. This revision is based on the results of a computational analysis of the Kildin vowel inventory. Specifically, a number of segments that have been variously described by different scholars as either diphthongs or monophthongs have been examined using ...
Added: March 6, 2024
Maisak T., , in: Songs and Trees: Papers in Memory of Sasha Vydrina.: СПб.: Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2023. P. 363–424.
Dedicated focus constructions have been identified as an important means of managing information structure in Nakh-Daghestanian languages. In a typical focus construction, a focalizing element, which is often a grammatical marker with another basic function, is placed immediately after the focused constituent. Being present in many languages of the family, focus constructions are subject to ...
Added: February 3, 2024
Меленченко Максим, Конча Кирилл, Добрушина Нина., В кн.: Songs and Trees: Papers in Memory of Sasha Vydrina.: СПб.: Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2023. С. 451–484.
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Added: September 27, 2023
Zakirova A., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2022 Т. 81 № 6 С. 102–114
The purpose of this article is to provide a review of dedicated number marking on verbs in the East Caucasian languages. The review is based on the data drawn from grammatical descriptions. First of all, possible ways to analyze number marking on verbs are discussed: 1) as agreement, i.e. as an operation by which morphological features are copied from word ...
Added: September 8, 2023
Zakirova A., Родной язык: лингвистический журнал 2022 № 1 С. 5–49
This paper provides a survey of number agreement in the East Caucasian languages and languages of other language families in contact with East Caucasian. For a sample of 59 idioms I considered number agreement strategies of adjectives in the attributive position and established what factors license agreement in these idioms. Besides, I assessed the weight ...
Added: August 29, 2023
Berzon E., Maksim Kalinin, Sergey Koval et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 2 P. 391–402
This paper offers an interpretation of an insufficiently understood verb form in the Neo-Babylonian letter OIP 114, 17:8, 29, thereby clarifying its contents. The word in question is shown to be an Aramaic verb form. This interpretation is supported by observations on the orthography and phonology of early Neo-Babylonian. It follows from the study that ...
Added: April 6, 2023
Melenchenko M., В кн.: Девятнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей: тезисы докладов.: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2022. С. 81–84.
The talk is dedicated to some problems of diachronic development of numeral systems in Lezgic languages. ...
Added: December 5, 2022
Konstantin V. Filatov, / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2022. No. 109.
The paper provides a description of the indicative inflectional system of the synthetic (nonperyphrastic) forms in the heavily underdescribed Anchiq dialect of Karata (< Andic < AvaroAndic-Tsezic < Nakh-Daghestanian). The aim of the paper is to describe the inventory of tense and aspect markers and to identify all the distinctive inflectional features from the point ...
Added: November 18, 2022
Maisak T., Родной язык: лингвистический журнал 2022 № 1 С. 50–72
The present article examines the marker guža (гужа) in Andi, a language of the Avar-Andic branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian family. This marker often co-occurs with finite verb forms, so one may think of analysing it as a verbal suffix that derives converbs from finite verbs. However, as I show with examples taken from Andi texts, ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Shiryaev A., Daniel M., Moroz G., Phonetica 2022 Vol. 79 No. 4 P. 353–395
Glottalized sonorants are a rare sound type that has been under scrutiny for a number of reasons of general relevance to the phonetic theory. It has been claimed that the timing of glottalization of glottalized sonorants may shift in accordance with the position in the syllable onset (pre-glottalization) or coda (post-glottalization), to provide a cue ...
Added: October 29, 2022
Daria G., Golovanenko D. A., Вопросы языкознания 2023 № 4 С. 129–156
This article presents the Russian translation of the First Grammatical Treatise, one of the most fascinating examples of Medieval Icelandic linguistic thought. The translation is accompanied by a detailed commentary and an introductory note aimed to help the reader plunge into the intellectual culture of twelfth-century Iceland and understand better the terminology and concepts used ...
Added: October 28, 2022