Current trends in Caucasian, East European, and inner Asian linguistics : papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
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Current trends in Caucasian, East European, and inner Asian linguistics : papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 246)
John Benjamins, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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 Universite de Montreal. 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; Montreal: Editions Fides, 2003).
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Tuite, Kevin)
- 2. Foreword (by Friedman, Victor A.)
- 3. Towards a Phonological Typology of Native Siberia (by Anderson, Gregory D.S.)
- 4. On the Syntax of Possessive Reflexive Pronouns in Modern Georgian and Certain Indo-European Languages (by Apridonidze, Shukia)
- 5. How Many Verb Classes Are There in Mingrelian? (by Cherchi, Marcello)
- 6. More Pontic: Further Etymologies Between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian (by Colarusso, John)
- 7. The Bulgarians of Moldova and Their Language (by Dyer, Donald)
- 8. Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part Two (by Friedman, Victor A.)
- 9. Typology of Writing, Greek Alphabet, and the Origin of Alphabetic Scripts of the Christian Orient (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.)
- 10. The Case for Dialect Continua in Tungusic: Plural Morphology (by Grenoble, Lenore A.)
- 11. Ingush Inflectional Verb Morphology: A Synchronic Classification and Historical Analysis with Comparison to Chechen (by Handel, Zev)
- 12. The Prehistory of Udi Locative Cases and Locative Preverbs (by Harris, Alice C.)
- 13. Vowels and Vowel Harmony in Namangan Tatar (by Harrison, K. David)
- 14. The Nakh-Daghestanian Consonant Correspondences (by Nichols, Johanna)
- 15. Constraints on Reflexivization in Tsez (by Polinsky, Maria)
- 16. The Diachrony of Demonstrative Pronouns in East Caucasian (by Schulze, Wolfgang)
- 17. On Double Dative Constructions in Georgian (by Singer, Kora)
- 18. Kartvelian Series Markers (by Tuite, Kevin)
- 19. Tone and Phoneme in Ket (by Vajda, Edward J.)
- 20. Index
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