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The Language and people of Mehweb
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Dobrushina N.
This paper describes the sociolinguistic situation of Mehweb, a lect of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian, spoken in the Republic of Daghestan. In the course of several field trips to the village of Mehweb (officially, Megeb), sociolinguistic interviews were conducted in Mehweb and four neighbouring Avar- and Lak-speaking villages. The paper describes the demographic situation in Mehweb, the villagers’ official status, their social and economic life in the past and at present. The multilingual repertoire of Mehwebs and their neighbours is described in both qualitative and quantitative terms. I conclude that, while there are no signs of language loss, the traditional patterns of multilingualism in Mehweb are highly endangered.
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Berlin : Language Science Press, 2019
Lander Y., Kozhukhar A. A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 34.
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 10, 2015
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 ...
Added: December 9, 2016
Kustova M. A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015.
This paper deals with the morphological and syntactic properties of general converbs in Mehweb, including the markers used to form general converbs and the alternations they undergo, periphrastic converbs, independent uses of converbs, their behaviour in combination with tensed verbs in the imperative, different strategies of how a converb clause shares its arguments with the ...
Added: December 3, 2015
Lander Yu., Kozhukhar A., , in : The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax. : Berlin : Language Science Press, 2019. Ch. 11. P. 295-314.
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 ...
Added: October 26, 2019
Moroz G., В кн. : Сборник научных статей по материалам Второй конференции-школы «Проблемы языка: взгляд молодых ученых». : М. : Институт языкознания РАН, 2013. С. 277-288.
The Mehweb language is an isolated one-village language of the Dargwa group (Nakh-Daghestanian). Mehweb speakers moved outside the Dargwa-speaking area and now they are located near the Avar and Lak speakers. Many authors treated Mehweb specific features as archaic. In this paper I argue that some features of the Mehweb consonant system shows many innovations ...
Added: December 5, 2013
Chechuro I., В кн. : Сборник научных статей по материалам Второй конференции-школы «Проблемы языка: взгляд молодых ученых». : М. : Институт языкознания РАН, 2013. С. 349-361.
В сборнике представлены научные статьи, основанные на докладах Второй конференции-школы «Проблемы языка: взгляд молодых ученых», прошедшей 5-7 сентября 2013 года в Институте языкознания РАН. Среди авторов – молодые ученые – представители российской и зарубежной лингвистики. Основные научные направления сборника: теоретическая лингвистика, сравнительно-историческое языкознание, типология, психолингвистика, диалектология.
Сборник представляет интерес, прежде всего, для ученых-лингвистов, а также ...
Added: September 28, 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
Sheyanova M., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 31.
This paper classifies the semantic inventory and describes the morphosyntactic characteristics of specialized converbs in Mehweb a lect of the Dargwa group of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. The data for this description were collected during a field trip to the village of Mehweb (Megeb). For Mehweb I describe converbs which have the following ...
Added: December 9, 2015
Dobrushina N., В кн. : Язык и общество. : М. : Азбуковник, 2016.
Статья представляет собой социолингвистический очерк мегебского языка, малого языка Дагестана ...
Added: April 15, 2015
Shapovalova O. A., В кн. : Проблемы языка: Сборник научных статей по материалам Третьей конференции-школы «Проблемы языка: взгляд молодых ученых». : М. : Институт языкознания РАН, 2014.
The following research on indefinite pronouns in Mehwebian is a result of their application to the particular typological base. Some brief cases of externalization and grammaticalization have also been discussed.
The field for the further investigations is rather vast. It includes some additional data acquisition on functional contexts which haven’t been collected and pronominal series which ...
Added: December 8, 2014
Dobrushina N., , in : The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax. : Berlin : Language Science Press, 2019. Ch. 5. P. 118-165.
The paper is a description of moods in Mehweb, a lect of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) languages, Republic of Daghestan. The data were collected in the course of several field trips to the village of Mehweb. The forms of non-indicative moods and common constructions where these forms occur are described. Mehweb has ...
Added: October 28, 2019
Daniel M., , in : The semantics of verbal categories in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Tense, aspect, evidentiality, mood and modality. Vol. 16.: Leiden : Brill, 2018. P. 247-266.
The morphology of aspect in many East Caucasian languages is usually described in terms of two aspectual stems. One stem, called ‘perfective’, derives perfective forms, including perfective past (i.e. aorist), perfective converb, perfective participle and other forms. The other stem, called ‘imperfective’, derives imperfective forms, including e.g. imperfective past (i.e. imperfect) and imperfective present, imperfective ...
Added: June 19, 2018
Kozhukhar A. A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 27.
This study analyses the difference between logophoric pronoun and long-distance reflexive in Mehweb Dargwa of East Caucasian language family. Following paper cites the examples that provide evidence for the difference existing between logophoric pronouns and long-distance reflexives in Mehweb and explains the cases of the reference ambiguity by introducing the idea of the zero pronoun ...
Added: November 29, 2015
Lander Yu., , in : The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax. : Berlin : Language Science Press, 2019. Ch. 12. P. 315-331.
Mehweb Dargwa features a particle gwa, a peculiar element which is basically used for emphasizing the assertion. The paper explores some grammatical characteristics of this particle. It is shown that, in both verbal and non-verbal clauses, gwa serves as a predicative marker forming a complete predication and is an equivalent of a copula (even though, unlike the neutral ...
Added: October 26, 2019
Daniel M., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2015.
In this paper, I provide an overview of the verb morphology of Mehweb, a lect of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian languages, spoken in the village of the same name in the Gunib district of the Republic of Daghestan. The paper is mostly focused on formal and synthetic morphology. Periphrastic forms are treated only ...
Added: December 3, 2015
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 ...
Added: December 2, 2016
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
Kozhukhar A. A., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2014. No. 14.
This study analyzes the phenomenon of pronominal multi-fuctionality in the Mehweb language, which is a Dargwa group from the Nakh-Dagestanian language family. The pronominal stem has three functions; reflexive, logophoric and intensifier, which are described in detail below. ...
Added: December 19, 2014
Koryakov Y., , in : The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax. : Berlin : Language Science Press, 2019. Ch. 13. P. 333-334.
This section presents two maps of Mehweb,one showing the spread of the East Caucasian language family, together with Mehweb’s closest relatives and its location with respect to the other languages of the Dargwa branch; the other showing the location of the linguistic family at a larger scale of the mountains of the Caucasus. ...
Added: December 16, 2019
Smirnova A., Lapina M. S., В кн. : Альманах конференции молодых ученых института этнологии и антропологии РАН. Выпуск 2. Вып. 2.: М. : ИЭА РАН, 2021. С. 45-65.
The Republic of Karelia is a Russian region with a complex linguistic situation caused by the long coexistence of the Karelian, Vepsian, Finnish and Russian languages. However, those languages' different statuses lead to language shift and language revitalization attempts, which, both being complex socio-cultural phenomena, constantly affect one another. Social attitudes also have a substantial ...
Added: September 6, 2021
Жорник Д. О., Koryakov Y., Вестник угроведения 2022 Т. 12 № 1 С. 185-197
Introduction: the article describes the linguistic situation among the Ivdel (Upper Lozva) Mansi people, a small community residing mostly in the North of the Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia. The Ivdel Mansi dialect is actively used by speakers of all generations, while other Mansi dialects are spoken almost exclusively by elderly and middle-aged people. The degree ...
Added: October 26, 2022
Moroz G., , in : The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax. : Berlin : Language Science Press, 2019. 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] ...
Added: October 26, 2019
М. : ИМЛИ РАН, 2020
The international collective work presents the general principles of sociolinguistic typology, the allocation of functional types of languages and functional dominants, with a special emphasis on minority languages. The main subject of study is the languages of Russia and Vietnam and their functioning in various social spheres. The book presents a sociolinguistic classification of the ...
Added: December 9, 2020
Danilevsky I., В кн. : Движение и пространство в славянските езици, литератури и култури: Сборник с доклади от Дванадесетите международни славистични чтения - София, 9-10 май 2014 г. Т. 2: Литературознание и фолклористика.: София : Университетско издателство "Св. Климент Охридски", 2015. С. 28-35.
The study of Old Rus' princes' marital ties suggest that in XI-XIII centuries there were social groups in Rus' that did not do translations but were able to get acquainted with the foreign-language literature of the time. It allows to add new notes in understanding the logic of the cultural history of pre-Mongol Rus'. ...
Added: May 18, 2016