The Oxford handbook of languages of the Caucasus / edited by Maria Polinsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polinsky, Maria, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caucasian languages.

Language and languages.

Caucasus--Languages.

Caucasus.

Caucasus Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1064 pages) : maps.

Other Title:

Handbook of languages of the Caucasus

Languages of the Caucasus

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This handbook introduces and overviews the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterised or exoticised, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Maria Polinsky

Chechen and Ingush / Erwin R. Komen, Zarina Molochieva, Johanna Nichols

Lak / Victor A. Friedman

Dargwa / Nina Sumbatova

Avar / Diana Forker

Archi / Marina Chumakina

Abaza and Abkhaz / Brian O'Herin

Iron Ossetic / David Erschler

Segmental Phonetics and Phonology in Caucasian Languages / Gašper Beguš

Word Stress in Languages of the Caucasus / Lena Borise

North Caucasus: Regions and their Demography / Konstantin Kazenin

Correlatives in Languages of the Caucasus / Ömer Demirok, Balkız Öztürk

The Nominal Domain in Languages of the Caucasus / Balkız Öztürk, Ömer Eren

Agreement in Languages of the Caucasus / Steven Foley

Ergativity in the Caucasus / Dmitry Ganenkov

Ellipsis in Languages of the Caucasus / David Erschler

Binding and indexicality in the Caucasus / Dmitry Ganenkov, Natalia Bogomolova

Information Structure in Languages of the Caucasus / Diana Forker

The Northwest Caucasian Languages / Peter Arkadiev, Yury Lander

Languages and Sociolinguistics of the Caucasus / Nina Dobrushina, Michael Daniel, Yuri Koryakov

Tone and Intonation in Languages of the Caucasus / Lena Borise

Nakh-Dagestanian Languages / Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak

Kartvelian (South Caucasian) Languages / Yakov G. Testelets

Indo-European Languages of the Caucasus / Oleg Belyaev

Megrelian / Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780190690724

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.