Current trends in Caucasian, East European, and inner Asian linguistics : papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson / edited by Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aronson, Howard I. (Howard Isaac), 1936-

Holisky, Dee Ann.

Tuite, Kevin.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 246.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 246

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Former Soviet republics--Languages.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 426 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

CURRENT TRENDS IN CAUCASIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND INNER ASIAN LINGUISTICS

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

INTRODUCTION

1. Languages of the Caucasus

2. Siberian indigenous languages

3. Slavic

4. Acknowledgements

REFERENCES

FOREWORD

THE PUBLICATIONS OF HOWARD I. ARONSON

In Press and Forthcoming

TOWARDS A PHONOLOGICA L TYPOLOGY OF NATIVE SIBERIA

1.m/n/ñ/ŋ

2. Initial

2.1 Word-initial

2.2 in syllable-onset position in non-word-initial syllables

2.3 On in the languages of Siberia

3. Conclusions

ON THE SYNTAX OF POSSESSIVE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS INMODERN GEORGIAN AND CERTAIN INDO-EUROPEANLANGUAGES

HOW MANY VERB CLASSES ARE THERE IN MINGRELIAN?

1. Introduction

2. General comments on Mingrelian verbal classification

3. Various criteria which do not help to distinguish Class 4

4. Areas for further research

4.1 Screeve distribution

4.2 Animacy of arguments

4.3 Work with native consultants

5. Conclusions

MORE PONTICFURTHER ETYMOLOGIES BETWEEN INDO-EUROPEAN AND NORTHWEST CAUCASIAN

KEY TO NOTATION

THE BULGARIANS OF MOLDOVA AND THEIR LANGUAGE

1. The Bulgarians of Moldova

2. Studying the Bulgarian of Moldova

3. The Dialectal Membership of Moldovan Bulgarian

4. Linguistic Features of the Moldovan Dialects of Bulgarian

4.1 Phonology: The vocalic system

4.2 Phonology: The consonantal system

4.3 Morphology: Divergences from the standard

5, Conclusions

LEGALDOCUMENTS

INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED WITH THE FOLLOWING PERSONS:

LAKFOLKTALES: MATERIALS FOR A BILINGUAL READER:PART TWO

1. Forward

2. Introduction

3. Abbreviations

4. Tale Two

5. Vocabulary.

TYPOLOGY OF WRITING, GREEK ALPHABET, AND THEORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC SCRIPTS OF THE CHRISTIAN ORIENT

1. Writing as a semiotic system

2. The 'Plane of content' and the 'Plane of expression ' of writing

3. 'Paradigmatics' and 'Syntagmatics' of writing

4. Ancient Greek as an earliest sample of alphabetic writing

5. Alphabetic scripts of the Christian Orient

6. Alphabetic system - a final stage in the development of writing?

THE CASE FOR DIALECT CONTINUA IN TUNGUSIC PLURAL MORPHOLOGY

2. The Geography and Dialects of Northwest ern Tungusic

3. Interpreting the Distribution of Plurals in Northwestern Tungusic

4. Dominant Plural Markers

5. Secondary Plurals

5.1 Kinship terms

5.2 Duals and Collectives

6. Residual Plurals

6.1 Residual plurals in Northwestern Tungusic

6.3 Residual plural morphemes in other Tungusic languages

7. Conclusion

DIALECT/LANGUAGE ABBREVIATIONS USED ON THE MAP"PLURALS IN TUNGUSIC DIALECTS

INGUSH INFLECTIONAL VERB MORPHOLOGYA SYNCHRONIC CLASSIFICATION AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS WITH COMPARISON TO CHECHEN

0. Introduction

notation

1. Basic verb inflections

2. Historical considerations

2.1 Historically periphrastic verb tenses built on converbs

2.2 Ingush ablaut and its historical origins in umlaut

2.3 Stem -Final /-l/

3. Comparison of Ingush and Chechen verb paradigms

4. Conclusion

APPENDIX I: The Ingush sound system VOWELS

APPENDIX II: Key to Abbreviations

APPENDIX III: Forms in the Ingush-Chechen cognate database

THE PREHISTORY OF UDI LOCATIVE CASES AND LOCATIVE PREVERBS

1. Locative cases

1.1 The system synchronically

1.2 On Reconstruction

2. Locative preverbs

3. Conclusion

VOWELS AND VOWEL HARMONY IN NAMANGAN TATAR

0. A Note on the term 'Tatar'.

1. Phonetic Descriptions of Standard Literary Tatar

2. The Vowels of Namangan Tatar

3. Tatar Vowel Harmony Systems

3.1 Backness Harmony

3.2 Abstractness in Harmony

4. Rounding Harmony

5. SLT Rounding Harmony

6. Summary

THE NAKH-DAGHESTANIAN CONSONANT CORRESPONDENCES

1.1 Proto-Nakh-Daghestanian

1.2 Assumptions and conventions

1.3 Grammatical preliminaries

1.3.1 Gender classes

1.3.2 Thematic type

1.3.3 Valence

2. Basic segmental correspondences and reconstructions

2.1 Correspondences and reconstructions

2.2 PND st and stt

2.3 Additional PND phonemes

2.4 Nakh consonants without clear sources

3. Morphophonemic canon

3.1 Clusters

3.2 Gender prefixation

3.3 Other prefixes

3.4 Initial clusters in Nakh and Xinalug

3.5 Labialization

3.6 Pharyngealization

3.7Ablaut

3.8 Thematic vs. athematic declension

3.9 Consonant shifting

4 The Nakh-Daghestanian family tree

TABLE1. PND CONSONANTS AND THEIR NAKH REFLEXES.

TABLE2. CONSONANT SHIFTING IN VARIOUS WORDS FORCATTLE.

TABLE 3. VOICED AFFRICATES IN WORDS FOR CATTLE.

APPENDIX 1: NAKH AND DAGHESTANIAN CONSONANT CORRESPONDENCES.

1.1. PLAIN STOPS AND AFFRICATES

APPENDIX 1.2. EJECTIVES.

APPENDIX 1.3. VOICED STOPS AND AFFRICATES

APPENDIX 1.4. PLAIN FORTIS AFFRICATES AND CLUSTER.

APPENDIX 1.5. FORTIS EJECTIVE AFFRICATES.

APPENDIX1.6. VOICELESS FRICATIVES

APPENDIX 1.7. VOICELESS FRICATIVES.

APPENDIX 1.8. SONORANTS.

APPENDIX 2. SELECTED PND COGNATE SETS.

CONSTRAINTS ON REFLEXIVIZATION IN TSEZ

1.1 On reflexives

1.2 Preliminary information on Tsez

2. The expression of reflexivity

2.1 Intrinsic reflexives

2.2 Reflexive pronouns

2.3 Pronouns with the particle -tow

3. Compound reflexives: Distribution and locality.

4. Pronouns with the enclitic -tow

5. Discussion

5.1 Logophors: minimal and extended domains of coreference

5.2 The structural and linear position of antecedents

6. Conclusion

THE DIACHRONY OF DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS IN EASTCAUCASIAN

0. Objectives

1. Some prerequisites

2. The architecture of the paradigms of demonstratives in East Caucasian

2.1 The 'Operating Systems ' of East Caucasian

2.2 The deictic space in East Caucasian

2.3 The paradigmatic make-up

3. The diachrony of DP systems in an 'intermediate' perspective

3.1 The East Caucasian language family

3.2 Demonstrative pronouns in the intermediate proto-languages

4. The DP system of Proto-East Caucasian

ON DOUBLE DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN GEORGIAN

1. What double dative constructions are there?

2. Why double datives are strange

2.1 Formal doubling

2.2 Functional doubling

2.3 Semantic role doubling

3. Explaining the phenomenon: the interface of morpho(phono)logy, syntax, semantics and discourse/pragmatics

4. Summary

KARTVELIAN SERIES MARKERS

0. Grammatical 'perversity' in Georgian.

1. Series markers

1.1 The allomorphy of series markers

1.2 Series markers in the Georgian dialects

1.3 Series markers in Zan and Georgian

2. SMs and ablauting verbs

3.The series marker

4.Group1series markers, passives of state, and the present-perfect stem

4.1 Root and derived statives

4.2 Statives and present perfects

5. The Group 2 series markers

5.1 Subgroups of Group 2 series markers

5.2 Summary of types of series markers

REFERENCES.

TONE AND PHONEME IN KET

1. Ket monosyllabic tones

1.1 High toneme

1.2 Glottalized toneme

1.3 Rising/falling toneme

1.4 Falling tone

2. Tone and vowel phoneme in Ket monosyllables.

2.1 The status of mid vowels in polysyllabic words

3. Pitch in polysyllabic Ket words

3.1 Rising/falling tone

3.2 The rising/high-falling contour

3.3 The phonological status of disyllabic pitch contours

4. The phonological phrase

5. Conclusion

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613312075

9781283312073

1283312077

9789027275257

9027275254

OCLC:

768761690