Tense, aspect, modality and finiteness in East Caucasian languages
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 204 pages
978-3-8196-0800-1 (ISBN)
Description
Dieser Sammelband umfasst Beiträge zur Mophosyntax verbaler Kategorien in einem breit angelegten Sample ost-kaukasischer Sprachen. Die Mehrheit der beschriebenen Sprachen sind genetisch miteinander verwandte Sprachen der ostkaukasischen (Nakh-Daghestanischen) Sprachgruppe. Angrenzende Turk- und nordwest-kaukasische Sprachen finden jedoch in eini-gen Beiträgen ebenfalls Erwähnung. MARINA CHUMAKINAS Beitrag zur morphologischen Komplexität von Verben des Archi bietet anhand dieser kleinen, aber gut beschriebenen Spra-che ein typisches Beispiel für die Konstruktion von Verbformen in den ost-kaukasischen Sprachen. TIMUR MAISAK legt den Fokus auf einen Zweig der Sprachfamilie, indem er Prä-sens- und Futurformen im lezgischen Tempus- und Aspektsystem untersucht, während GILLES AUTHIER in seinem Beitrag "From adlocative case to debitive mood without desubordination" die aktuelle Diskussion zur morphologischen Polykategorialität auf den bisher vernachlässig-ten Unterzweig des Budugh und Kryz ausweitet. NINA DOBRUSHINA setzt in ihrer breit ange-legten Studie zum Optativ in ost-kaukasischen Sprachen auf die Expertise der Leser in diesem Bereich. NINA SUMBATOVA - ausgewiesene Expertin für den Dargwa-Zweig der ost-kaukasischen Sprachen - befasst sich mit Personenmarkern und deren Hierarchisierung in diesem Sprachzweig. ELENA KALININA behandelt einen vernachlässigten Aspekt der verbalen Morphosyntax, indem sie einen Einblick in exklamative Konstruktionen in verschiedenen kaukasischen Sprachen gewährt.
English:
This collection of papers deals with the morphosyntax of verbal categories in a broad sample of languages spoken in the Eastern Caucasus. Most of these languages are genetically related and belong to the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) family, but similarities with sur-rounding Turkic or North-West Caucasian languages are also touched upon in some of the contributions. MARINA CHUMAKINA's paper "Morphological complexity of Archi verbs" of-fers a typical example, based on a single and very small, but well studied language, of how verbal forms are built in most East Caucasian languages; TIMUR MAISAK's contribution then studies the present and the future forms within the Lezgic tense and aspect systems focussing on one branch of the family, while a paper by GILLES AUTHIER "From adlocative case to debi-tive mood without desubordination in Budugh and Kryz" zooms on an understudied sub-branch to address a current debate on morpheme polycategoriality. NINA DOBRUSHINA in her wide-ranging study on the Optative domain in East Caucasian languages builds on the con-tributor's general expertise on this topic. NINA SUMBATOVA, the main specialist of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian - a family in which verbs usually do not bear person indexes - takes up the puzzle of person hierarchies and the problem of person marker origin in Dargwa. The scope of ELENA KALININA's "Exclamative clauses in the languages of the North Caucasus and the problem of finiteness" is broader and proposes original views on a neglected aspect of verbal morphosyntax. ?
English:
This collection of papers deals with the morphosyntax of verbal categories in a broad sample of languages spoken in the Eastern Caucasus. Most of these languages are genetically related and belong to the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) family, but similarities with sur-rounding Turkic or North-West Caucasian languages are also touched upon in some of the contributions. MARINA CHUMAKINA's paper "Morphological complexity of Archi verbs" of-fers a typical example, based on a single and very small, but well studied language, of how verbal forms are built in most East Caucasian languages; TIMUR MAISAK's contribution then studies the present and the future forms within the Lezgic tense and aspect systems focussing on one branch of the family, while a paper by GILLES AUTHIER "From adlocative case to debi-tive mood without desubordination in Budugh and Kryz" zooms on an understudied sub-branch to address a current debate on morpheme polycategoriality. NINA DOBRUSHINA in her wide-ranging study on the Optative domain in East Caucasian languages builds on the con-tributor's general expertise on this topic. NINA SUMBATOVA, the main specialist of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian - a family in which verbs usually do not bear person indexes - takes up the puzzle of person hierarchies and the problem of person marker origin in Dargwa. The scope of ELENA KALININA's "Exclamative clauses in the languages of the North Caucasus and the problem of finiteness" is broader and proposes original views on a neglected aspect of verbal morphosyntax. ?