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The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus

Author : Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190690690
Total Pages : 1189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus by : Maria Polinsky

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus written by Maria Polinsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.

A Grammar of the Kabardian Language

Author : John Colarusso
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 0919813992
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (198 download)

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Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Kabardian Language by : John Colarusso

Download or read book A Grammar of the Kabardian Language written by John Colarusso and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive grammar of a non-Indo-European language from the Northwest Caucasian family in a language other than Russian. Kabardian is complex at every level. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language gives the reader the first account of the syntax of this language. It will give the area specialist access to the language. It will give the linguist interested in complex languages access to an extraordinarily difficult language, and it will give the theoretical linguist access to a language that exhibits topological exotica at every level of its grammar, from phonetics to the lexicon.

The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics)

Author : John Colarusso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918177
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics) by : John Colarusso

Download or read book The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics) written by John Colarusso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any other group of languages those of the Caucasus are famous for their enormous and difficult consonantal systems. It is by no means exceptional for one of these languages to have as many as 50 consonants, and of these languages those from the Northwest Caucasus have the largest and most complex consonantal systems. The extensive use of the articulatory regions of the mouth together with the occurrence of secondary modifications at many of these points is unequalled by any other known group of languages. This detailed study examines the languages of the Northwest Caucasus and provides an essential guide to this most complicated group of languages.

Common West Caucasian

Author : Vjačeslav A. Čirikba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789073782716
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Book Synopsis Common West Caucasian by : Vjačeslav A. Čirikba

Download or read book Common West Caucasian written by Vjačeslav A. Čirikba and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia

Author : Geoffrey Haig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110421747
Total Pages : 1183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia by : Geoffrey Haig

Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia written by Geoffrey Haig and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 1183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages, contributed by leading specialists, and evaluates similarities across the languages that may have arisen by areal contact. It begins with an introductory chapter presenting an overview of the various genetic groupings in the region and summarizing some of the significant features and issues relating to language contact. In the core of the volume the presentation of the languages is divided into five contact areas, which include (i) eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran, (ii) northern Iraq, (iii) western Iran, (iv) the Caspian region and south Azerbaijan, and (v) the Caucasian rim and southern Black Sea coast. Each section contains chapters devoted to the languages of the area preceded by an introductory section that highlights significant contact phenomena. The volume is rounded off by an appendix with basic lexical items across a selection of the languages. The handbook features contributions by Erik Anonby, Denise Bailey, Christiane Bulut, David Erschler, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Rene Lacroix, Parvin Mahmoudveysi, Hrach Martirosyan, Ludwig Paul, Stephan Procházka, Laurentia Schreiber, Don Stilo, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Christina van der Wal Anonby.

Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics

Author : Dee Ann Holisky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027247587
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics by : Dee Ann Holisky

Download or read book Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics written by Dee Ann Holisky and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. Some authors utilize their field data to address problems of general linguistic interest, such as reflexivization. A number of papers look at the evidence for contact-induced change in multilingual areas. Some of the most exciting contributions to the collection represent significant advances in the reconstruction of the prehistory of such understudied language families as Northeast Caucasian, Tungusic and the baffling isolate Ket. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in the indigenous languages of the former USSR, but also to historical and synchronic linguists seeking to familiarize themselves with the fascinating, typologically diverse languages from the interior of the Eurasian continent. Dee Ann Holisky is Professor of English and Linguistics, and Associate Dean for Academic Programs of the College of Arts & Sciences at George Mason University. She is the author of Aspect and Georgian Medial Verbs (Caravan Books, 1981) and of numerous articles on Georgian and Kartvelian linguistics. Kevin Tuite is Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Among his books are An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and Ethnolinguistics and Anthropological Theory (co-edited with Christine Jourdan; Montréal: Éditions Fides, 2003).

The Northwest Caucasus

Author : Walter Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134002491
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Northwest Caucasus written by Walter Richmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive history of the Northwest Caucasus. It examines interethnic relations and demographic changes that have occurred, shedding new light on how the policies of the Ottoman Empire, Crimean Khanate, and Russia have affected the peoples living in the region and their current socio-political situation.

Nart Sagas from the Caucasus

Author : John Colarusso
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691026473
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Nart Sagas from the Caucasus written by John Colarusso and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-10 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nart sagas are a series of tales originating from the North Caucasus, forming the basic mythology of the tribes in the area. In ninety-two straightforward tales populated by extraordinary characters and exploits, by giants who humble haughty Narts, by horses and sorceresses, these myths bring these cultures to life in a powerful epos. In these colorful tales, women, not least the beautiful temptress Satanaya, the mother of all Narts, are not only fertility figures but also pillars of authority and wisdom. In one variation on a recurring theme, a shepherd, overcome with passion on observing Satanaya bathing alone, shoots a "bolt of lust" that strikes a rock -- a rock that gives birth to the Achilles-like Sawseruquo, or Sosruquo. With steely skin but tender knees, Sawseruquo is a man the Narts come to love and hate. Despite a tragic history, the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs have retained the Nart sagas as a living tradition. The memory of their elaborate warrior culture, so richly expressed by these tales, helped them resist Tsarist imperialism in the nineteenth century, Stalinist suppression in the twentieth, and has bolstered their ongoing cultural journey into the post-Soviet future. Because these peoples were at the crossroads of Eurasia for millennia, their myths exhibit striking parallels with the lore of ancient India, classical Greece, and pagan Scandinavia. The Nart sagas may also have formed a crucial component of the Arthurian cycle. Notes after each tale reveal these parallels; an appendix offers extensive linguistic commentary.

Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Language

Author : Igorʹ Mikhaĭlovich Dʹi︠a︡konov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Language by : Igorʹ Mikhaĭlovich Dʹi︠a︡konov

Download or read book Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Language written by Igorʹ Mikhaĭlovich Dʹi︠a︡konov and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis

Author : Michael Fortescue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191506192
Total Pages : 1089 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis written by Michael Fortescue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.

Phonologies of Asia and Africa

Author : Alan S. Kaye
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060191
Total Pages : 1075 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Phonologies of Asia and Africa written by Alan S. Kaye and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This large, 2-volume work presents more than 50 authoritative articles by leading specialists on a wide variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages and dialects of the greater Near East and Africa, from a variety of language families. The articles are concise descriptive narratives presenting the basics of the phonology of the languages and dialects, with an emphasis on the phonological processes operative in them. A major goal of the work is a definite statement on the language and/or dialect in question with regard to genetics, typology, and/or universal elements. Of interest to general linguists as well as those specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages.

Copular Sentences in Russian

Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402057938
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Copular Sentences in Russian by : Asya Pereltsvaig

Download or read book Copular Sentences in Russian written by Asya Pereltsvaig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.

Languages of the USSR

Author : W. K. Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107623553
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Languages of the USSR written by W. K. Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1951, this book analyzes the phonology and morphology of the six major language groups most used in the Soviet Union.

Studies in West Circassian Phonology and Morphology

Author : Henricus Joannes Smeets
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in West Circassian Phonology and Morphology by : Henricus Joannes Smeets

Download or read book Studies in West Circassian Phonology and Morphology written by Henricus Joannes Smeets and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a contribution to the study of Circassian, a West Caucasian language. The description focusses on the language of a group of Circassians in Anatolian Turkey living in and araound the town of Düzce. They speak a form of Shapsug, a West Circassian dialect. The Düzce Shapsug data were collected both in Turkey and in the Netherlands."--P. [7].

The Northwest Caucasian Languages

Author : John Colarusso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138998001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Northwest Caucasian Languages written by John Colarusso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any other group of languages those of the Caucasus are famous for their enormous and difficult consonantal systems. It is by no means exceptional for one of these languages to have as many as 50 consonants, and of these languages those from the Northwest Caucasus have the largest and most complex consonantal systems. The extensive use of the articulatory regions of the mouth together with the occurrence of secondary modifications at many of these points is unequalled by any other known group of languages. This detailed study examines the languages of the Northwest Caucasus and provides an essential guide to this most complicated group of languages.

Word-Formation

Author : Peter O. Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110246279
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Word-Formation written by Peter O. Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

The History of Basque

Author : R. L. Trask
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136167633
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The History of Basque written by R. L. Trask and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known about the prehistory of the language, including pronunciation, the grammar and the vocabulary. It also provides a long critical evaluation of the search for its relatives, as well as a thumbnail sketch of the language, a summary of its typological features, an external history and an extensive bibliography.