Papers by Zurab Baratashvili
SOAS: The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, Aug 1, 2020
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In this paper we investigate a case of borrowing of English noun-noun (nn) constructs into Georgi... more In this paper we investigate a case of borrowing of English noun-noun (nn) constructs into Georgian. The phenomenon has been observed lately in Georgian in sequences of two nouns, where the first noun, always marked by nominative, represents the dependent noun and the second is the head of the construct.
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In this paper we investigate a case of borrowing of English noun-noun (nn) constructs into Georgi... more In this paper we investigate a case of borrowing of English noun-noun (nn) constructs into Georgian. The phenomenon has been observed lately in Georgian in sequences of two nouns, where the first noun, always marked by nominative, represents the dependent noun and the second is the head of the construct.
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In the article, the types of causative constructions in Georgian are discussed with respect to se... more In the article, the types of causative constructions in Georgian are discussed with respect to semantic roles, syntactic functions, and morphological marking. The three types of causaitve: lexical, analytic, and morphological are mentioned, but within the scope of the article, all the analyses are focused on and the restrictive rules are established according to the latter. The Georgian Causative are checked according to the hierarchy of grammatical relations by Comrie and the generalisation of case marking by Baker. Theoretically possible and actually attested combinations of basic and syntactically derived constructions are calculated with respect to valency and transitivity. At the end of the paper the restrictive rules (according to Baker) and relationship with the Comrian ideas are established. The schemes are shown according to the relationship and correpsondences of semantic roles and syntactic functions (taking into account both basic and derived constructions). The results ...
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BULLETIN OF THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, vol. 13, no. 1, 2019
In the article, the types of causative constructions in Georgian are discussed with respect to se... more In the article, the types of causative constructions in Georgian are discussed with respect to semantic roles, syntactic functions, and morphological marking. The three types of causaitve: lexical, analytic, and morphological are mentioned, but within the scope of the article, all the analyses are focused on and the restrictive rules are established according to the latter. The Georgian Causative are checked according to the hierarchy of grammatical relations by Comrie and the generalisation of case marking by Baker. Theoretically possible and actually attested combinations of basic and syntactically derived constructions are calculated with respect to valency and transitivity. At the end of the paper the restrictive rules (according to Baker) and relationship with the Comrian ideas are established. The schemes are shown according to the relationship and correpsondences of semantic roles and syntactic functions (taking into account both basic and derived constructions). The results are useful for the linguistic typology.
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Typological Investigations, 2015
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We identify three constructions in Sylheti which license the non-mention of an agent argument or ... more We identify three constructions in Sylheti which license the non-mention of an agent argument or do not allow the realisation of one. We describe a passive construction, which allows the realisation of an agent followed by the converbial instrumental dia 'by', formed with the addition of a nominalizing suffix-a to the verbal root and the tensed passive auxiliary o-'become'. The second construction is an impersonal passive with the passive auxiliary za-'go', which does not allow the realisation of an agent argument and gives rise to possibilitative readings. Further, za-also acts as a light verb realised with verbal stems which can take a single argument interpreted as the 'undergoer' of the action, achieving an anticausative reading; this construction does not allow the realisation of an agent but does allow the realisation of the cause of the event such as a natural force marked with the agentive/instrumental-e. To describe these three constructions, this paper also provides a brief sketch of the distributional patterns of two Sylheti case markers, namely-e, which surfaces on both agents and instruments, and-re, which attaches to themes/patients, as well as recipients.
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