The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Polinsky, Maria

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to and overview of the languages of the Caucasus, including those of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. This region of the world exhibits extremely high linguistic diversity, and many of the languages spoken in the Caucasus have cross-linguistically rare features that are found in few or no other languages. This handbook serves as a comprehensive overview with detailed descriptions of languages as well as theoretically oriented chapters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190690717
• Artikelnr.: 72270074

Autorenporträt

Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Language Science Centre at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Heritage Languages and Their Speakers (2018), Deconstructing Ergativity ( 2016) and The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century (1996). She has done extensive primary work on several language families, in particular, on languages of the Caucasus: Nakh-Dagestanian, Norwest Caucasian, and Kartvelian. Her research emphasizes the importance of lesser-studied languages for theoretical linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Maps
Introduction
Maria Polinsky
Part I: General overview of the Caucasus
1. Languages and sociolinguistics of the Caucasus
Nina Dobrushina, Michael Daniel, and Yuri Koryakov
2. North Caucasus: Regions and their Demography
Konstantin Kazenin
Part II: Nakh-Dagestanian Languages
3. Nakh-Dagestanian Languages
Dmitry Ganenkov and Timur Maisak
4. Dargwa
Nina Sumbatova
5. Lak
Victor A. Friedman
6. Avar
Diana Forker
7. Archi
Marina Chumakina
8. Chechen and Ingush
Erwin R. Komen, Zarina Molochieva, and Johanna Nichols
Part III: Northwest Caucasian Languages
9. Northwest Caucasian Languages
Peter Arkadiev and Yury Lander
10. Abaza and Abkhaz
Brian O'Herin
Part IV: Kartvelian Languages
11. Kartvelian, or South Caucasian Languages
Yakov G. Testelets
12. Megrelian
Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel
Part V: Indo-European Languages
13. Indo-European Languages of the Caucasus
Oleg Belyaev
14. Iron Ossetic
David Erschler
Part VI: Phenomena
15. Segmental Phonetics and Phonology in Caucasian Languages
Gaper Begu
16. Word stress in Languages of the Caucasus
Lena Borise
17. Tone and Intonation in Languages of the Caucasus
Lena Borise
18. Ergativity in the Caucasus
Dmitry Ganenkov
19. The Nominal Domain in Languages of the Caucasus
Balkiz Ozturk and Omer Eren
20. Agreement in Languages of the Caucasus
Steven Foley
21. Binding and Indexicality in the Caucasus
Dmitry Ganenkov and Natalia Bogomolova
22. Correlatives in Languages of the Caucasus
Omer Demirok and Balkiz Ozturk
23. Ellipsis in Languages of the Caucasus
David Erschler
24. Information Structure in Languages of the Caucasus
Diana Forker
References
Appendix I: Language names
Appendix II: Transliteration tables
Index