SubjectsLinguistics / Caucasian languages

Titles

Complex Predicates: The syntax-morphology interface

Leila Lomashvili

Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 174] 2011. xi, 190 pp.

Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson

Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite

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. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.

Georgian: A structural reference grammar

George Hewitt

The Caucasus for its size can boast more languages than any other region on earth. Of the 40 or so native tongues Georgian is the most widely spoken (by up to 5 million, of whom 3 million are ethnic Georgians). With its own unique script, Georgian has been written since the 4th century and has a… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 2] 1995. xviii, 716 pp.