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Relative clause and resumptive pronouns in Mehweb
Ch. 11. P. 295–314.
Lander Yu., Kozhukhar A.
East Caucasian relative clause constructions (RCCs) are sometimes viewed as constructed mainly on the basis of semantic and pragmatic information. In this paper, we consider RCCs in Mehweb and argue that, despite the fact that the interpretation of some of them may rely exclusively on semantics, syntactic mechanisms may also come into play in their organization. We present evidence that Mehweb has grammaticalized the resumptive use of reflexive pronouns, which thus can be contrasted with other uses of reflexive pronouns due to the restrictions on animate antecedents observed only in RCCs.
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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
Панова А. В., В кн.: Двадцать вторая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 27–29 ноября 2025 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2025. С. 85–88.
В работе рассматриваются два типа относительных конструкций в ашхарском абазинском — с немаркированной вершиной и с адвербиальной вершиной. С помощью теста на маркирование вершины инструменталисом показывается, что внутреннюю вершину и вершину на левой периферии можно назвать вложенной вершиной относительной конструкции, а вершину в постпредикатной позиции — внешней. Рассматриваются свойства адвербиальной вершины относительной конструкции, в том числе ...
Added: February 15, 2026
Сибилев Г. О., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2023 Т. 6 № 1 С. 112–129
he article discusses the event structure of morphological causative in Khwarshi Proper dialect of the Khwarshi language (Tsezic< Avar-Ando-Tsezic<Nakh-Daghestanian). We also analyzed the semantic parameters of the morphological causative on -χ-/-k’- and compared them with the semantic parameters of the analytical causative construction. Note that a construction with a morphological causative can be either monoeventive ...
Added: December 22, 2025
Сибилев Г. О., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2025 Т. 21 № 1 С. 163–185
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the ways speaker-oriented modality can be expressed in Khwarshi Proper (Tsezic<Avar-Ando-Tsezic<Nakh-Daghestanian). Our field data also serves to fill some data gaps in the grammatical sketch of Khwarshi Proper [Testelets, Khalilova in print]. In this article, we describe hortative, imperative, optative, preventive constructions and the jussive construction with ...
Added: December 22, 2025
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
Poliakova E., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 4 С. 77–95
One of the common features of the Nakh-Daghestanian languages is the evidential opposition
between some of the past tense verb forms, which mark (in)direct access to the information. Khwarshi has two synthetic past forms that are traditionally considered to form this kind of opposition, but,
according to our data, it may in fact not be based on ...
Added: November 13, 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
Lander Y., Studies in Language 2026 Vol. 50 No. 1 P. 33–67
This paper documents relative clause constructions in the polysynthetic Circassian languages of the West Caucasian family and attempts to establish diachronic links between them. It is shown that the Circassian languages possess both externally-headed and internally-headed relative clauses, with the latter having semantic heads that are interpreted outside of the relative clause. In addition, these ...
Added: March 10, 2025
Mukhin T., Nasledskova P., Studies in Language 2025 Vol. 49 No. 2 P. 456–477
This paper presents the results of an experimental study of exophoric uses of demonstrative pronouns in the Kina variety of Rutul (Lezgic, East Caucasian). We collected the questionnaire designed by Wilkins (1999) from seven female native speakers of different ages to determine the spatial meanings of demonstrative pronouns and to identify secondary parameters affecting the ...
Added: February 10, 2025
Russkih A., Родной язык: лингвистический журнал 2024 № 2 С. 6–37
The additive particle =lo in the Upper Andi variety of Zilo is a multifunctional clitic which is used both in contexts typologically frequent for additive particles and in peripheral ones. The paper provides a comprehensive description of the functions of additive =lo in the Zilo Andi in a typological perspective, with special attention to the ...
Added: January 30, 2025
Melenchenko M., Folia Linguistica 2025 Vol. 59 No. 3 P. 785–821
The paper presents an overview of numeral systems in Lezgic languages (East Caucasian) and discusses hypotheses about their diachronic development. Similarly to other branches of the East Caucasian family, languages of the Lezgic branch have either a decimal (base-10) or a vigesimal (base-20) system. Decimal systems are attested in languages and dialects in the northwestern ...
Added: December 27, 2024
Maisak T., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 3 С. 60–98
В работе дается обзор грамматикализованных глагольных конструкций с континуативным значением (‘все еще делать, продолжать делать’), отмечаемых в ряде языков лезгинской группы нахско-дагестанской семьи, однако до сих пор не привлекавших должного внимания исследователей. Особенностью четырех лезгинских языков является наличие стативного глагола, описывающего продолжение существования или нахождения в определенном месте (‘все еще быть, оставаться’), именно этот глагол ...
Added: September 3, 2024
Lander Y., В кн.: Клычевские чтения - 2024. Материалы международной научной конференции.: Карачаевск: Издательство Карачаево-Черкесского государственного университета имени У.Д. Алиева, 2024. С. 67–77.
В абхазо-адыгских языках использование единиц, функционально параллельных вопросительным местоимениям, часто предполагает особую конструкцию (псевдоклефт), в которой описание ситуации включается в подлежащее, а «вопросительное местоимение» выступает как сказуемое. При этом абазинский язык может строить частные вопросы вообще без использования вопросительных местоимений. В работе аргументируется точка зрения, согласно которой в апсуанском говоре ашхарского диалекта абазинского языка в ...
Added: April 29, 2024