Introduction to Iberian-Caucasian Linguistics / Arnold Chikobava, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Čʻikʻobava, Arnold, 1898-1985, editor.

Series:

Georgian classics.

Georgian Classics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caucasian languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"This book is the only theoretical guide characterizing the main features of the languages of the minority ethnic groups of the Caucasus and establishing their common origin (genesis) by comparing this data. The author of this book is the creator of the theory of kinship of the Iberian-Caucasian languages and the founder of the corresponding scientific school. This book aims at presenting a systematic analysis of the significant phenomena of phonetics, morphology and syntax of the Iberian-Caucasian languages. According to the author, the obtained results will be an important basis for forming the final picture of comparative phonetics. The book will be useful for those interested in acquiring more knowledge of the diverse linguistic world of the Caucasus and, if interested, in the further scientific study of these languages"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Towards the Relationship between Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

2. Description of the Language System and Structure (Synchronous Analysis) and the History of the Language System and Structure (Diachronic Analysis)

3. Linguistics and the History of Language

4. Most Essential Achievements of Linguistics Are Related to the History of Language

5. "Introduction to Iberian-Caucasian Linguistics"

Chapter 1

Preliminary Notes

1. The Goals and Objectives of Iberian-Caucasian Linguistics

2. The Situation Regarding the Current State of the Study of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

3. Terms Used to Denote the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

4. Grouping of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages and Foundations

5. General Typological Characterization of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

6. The System of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages ​​Today and in the Past

Chapter 2

General Issues of the Phonemic System and History of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

7. Vowel System in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

8. Towards the History of Vocalism in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

9. The Consonant System in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

The System of Tri-Consonantal Clusters in the History of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

10. The Issue of Other Specific Series of Consonants in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

The Issue of Preruptive (Semi-Abruptive) Consonants

Labialized Phonemes

The Origin of Pharyngealized Phonemes

On Intensive Consonants

On the Issue of the Lateral Phonemes

11. General Tendencies in the Consonantism of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

12. The Assumption Regarding the Initial Complex Consonantism

13. Some Issues Regarding the Patterns of Sound Change in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages.

14. One Example of a Correspondence in the Dagestanian Languages

Towards the Issue of Establishing Phonetic Regularities in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

Chapter 3

General Issues of the Morphological Systems and History of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

15. The Main Principle of Morphology in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

16. The Grammatical Class and Category

Grammatical Gender and Different Groups of the Nominals

17. The Means of Distinguishing the Grammatical Classes of the Nominals

18. The Iberian-Caucasian languages ​​with and without Grammatical Classes

19. The Number of Grammatical Classes in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

20. Phonetic Changes in the Markers of the Grammatical Classes

21. The Issue of the Grammatical Classes in the Plural

22. The Situation in the Plural and the Issue of the Number of the Grammatical Classes

23. The Historical Significance of Unification and Bifurcation (Differentiation) of Grammatical Classes in the Plural Form

24. Fundamental Issues of Grammatical Class-Categories and History in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

25. Denotation of the Grammatical Classes in Substantives

26. Towards the History of Grammatical Classes in the Dagestanian and Abkhaz-Adyghean Languages

27. The Issue of Grammatical Classes in the Kartvelian Languages

28. Towards the Etymology of the Formants of the Thing Category in the Kartvelian Languages

29. Morphology of the Nominals: the Category of Case, Composition of Cases and the Process of Declension

30. Case Forms and Grammatical Classes

31. The Principle of Two-Stem Declension in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

32. Postpositional Cases in Georgian

33. Postpositional Cases in the Mountain Iberian-Caucasian Languages

34. Towards the Verb Categories in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages.

35. Types of Subjugation in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

36. The Main Features of Class Conjugation

The Class-Subjective Conjugation of an Intransitive Verb

The Class-Objective Conjugation of the Transitive Verb

37. The Main Features of the Class Conjugation

38. The Person Conjunction: Subjective and Subjective-Objective Conjugation

39. Classes and Persons in Lezgian and Aghul Verb Systems

40. Historical Relationships of Conjugation Types

41. Some Issues Regarding the Person Conjugation in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

42. The Means of Differentiation of the Person in the Adyghean and Kartvelian Languages

General Conclusions

Chapter 4

General Issues of the Syntactic System and the History of the Iberian- Caucasian Languages

43. Two Main Types of a Syntagm: Attributive and Predicative

44. The Issue of the Sequence of the Attribute Complex Components in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

The Determinant and the Determiner

45. The Syntactic Relation of the Determiner to the Determinant in the Attributive Syntagm of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

46. Main Types of a Predicative Syntagm in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

47. Predicative Syntagms and Corresponding Verbs

48. Components of an Ergative Construction

49. Different Interpretations of the Peculiarities of the Transitive Verb (General Approach)

50. Peter Uslar on the Passiveness of the Transitive Verb (in the Nakh and Dagestanian Languages)

51. The Syntactic Criterion in P. Uslar's Theory and the Verbs of Subjective-Objective Conjugation

52. H. Schuchardt on the Passiveness of the Transitive Verb in the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

53. The Criterion of the Inner form and the Explanation of the Peculiarities of the Outer Form in Schuchardt's Theory.

54. Niko Marr on the Passiveness of the Transitive Verb in Georgian

55. The Analysis of Niko Marr's Theory

56. Iv. Meshchaninov on the Ergative Construction

57. Mythological Interpretation of the Passiveness of the Ergative Construction

58. The Active Nature of the Ergative Construction Based on the Explanation of S. Bikhovskaya

59. N. Yakovlev on the Active Character of the Transitive Verb

60. Trombetti against the theory of the passiveness of the transitive verb

61. A. Dirr on the Transitive Verb

62. Two Aspects of the Issue of the Ergative Construction

63. The Transitive Verb and the Category of Voice

64. An Ergative Construction with the Transitive Verb with regard to the Voice Opposition

65. The Subject, Object and the Transitive Verb Lacking the Voice Form in the Ergative Construction

Chapter 5

A General Conclusion

Appendix

On Two Main Issues Regarding the Study of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages

References

Index of Names

Index of Terms

Blank Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version: Chikobava, Arnold Introduction to Iberian-Caucasian Linguistics

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