Edited by Ümit Atlamaz, Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk
This volume presents a collection of original articles on various morphosyntactic issues in the Languages of the Caucasus with a focus on their theoretical implications. The articles not only present detailed descriptions of various structural aspects of the Languages of the Caucasus but also… read more
With its surface active-ergative alignment, Laz is one of the few languages where the external argument of unergatives surfaces in ergative case. To account for languages like Laz, the dependent case-theoretic analysis of ergative case resorts to the concealed-transitive theory of unergatives, i. read more
This paper presents a survey of complementation strategies that are employed in Pazar and Ardesheni dialects of Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language that has been in contact with Turkish for decades. Our survey reveals strong signatures of contact in that nominalization patterns not… read more
This study investigates two discourse-related particles, ya and şo, in Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language. We argue that both ya and şo are indexical shift complementizers which can occur without an overt embedding verb, suggesting root complementizer behavior. However, when they appear… read more
