Author: John Colarusso
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317918177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
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.
The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics)
Author: John Colarusso
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317918177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317918177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
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.
The Northwest Caucasian Languages
Author: John Colarusso
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
Author: Maria Polinsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190690690
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1189
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190690690
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1189
Book Description
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: 0919813992
Category : Kabardian language
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 0919813992
Category : Kabardian language
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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 : a phonological survey
Author: John J. Colarusso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Common West Caucasian
Author: Vjačeslav A. Čirikba
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789073782716
Category : Abkhazo-Adyghian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789073782716
Category : Abkhazo-Adyghian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics
Author: Dee Ann Holisky
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027247587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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).
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027247587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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).
Caucasian Perspectives
Author: B. G. Hewitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caucasian languages
Languages : de
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caucasian languages
Languages : de
Pages : 432
Book Description
The North-West Caucasian Languages
Author: Aert Hendrik Kuipers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Introduction to the Study of the Languages of the Caucasus
Author: B. G. Hewitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abkhazo-Adyghian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abkhazo-Adyghian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description