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Standard Binding Theory does not give a straightforward account for the subject anaphor gap. Rizzi’s (1990) Anaphor Agreement Effect and its modified version (Woolford (1999)) were designed to account for that gap. The paper deals with... more
Standard Binding Theory does not give a straightforward account for the subject anaphor gap. Rizzi’s (1990) Anaphor Agreement Effect and its modified version (Woolford (1999)) were designed to account for that gap. The paper deals with Georgian anaphors representing counter-examples for both versions of the Anaphor Agreement Effect. It argues that the explanation for the presence of subject anaphors in Georgian can be given neither within Reinhart and Reuland’s (1993) “Reflexivity ” framework as it was previously suggested in Anagnostopoulou and Everaert (1999) and Everaert (2001) for Greek and Georgian. In fact there is more than only the internal structure of anaphors and the related anaphoric properties responsible for the existence of subject anaphors. 1. Anaphor Agreement Effect explaining a gap in the paradigm of anaphors Rizzi (1990) offers evidence from Italian and Icelandic to argue that anaphors that are in agreement with the verbal complex are ungrammatical. The Icelandic...
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Within the scope of Festival of Languages took place in 2009 the Conference Advances in Kartvelian Morphology and Syntax. Selected presentations are presented in this publication. The authors discuss topics such as anaphora in Svan,... more
Within the scope of Festival of Languages took place in 2009 the Conference Advances in Kartvelian Morphology and Syntax. Selected presentations are presented in this publication. The authors discuss topics such as anaphora in Svan, intonation in Georgien, pragmatics of subordinating clauses in Georgian, but also research on modern developments as SMS-communication in Georgian language area etc. DEUTSCH: Im Rahmen des Festivals der Sprachen fand im Jahre 2009 an der Universitat Bremen die Tagung Advances in Kartvelian Morphology and Syntax statt. Ausgewahlte Vortrage werden mit dieser Publikation vorgestellt. Die Autoren behandeln unter anderem Themen wie Ana-pher im Svanischen, Intonation im Georgischen, Pragmatik von Nebensatzen des Georgi-schen, aber auch Forschungen uber moderne Entwicklungen wie die SMS-Kommunikation im georgischsprachigen Sprachraum usw. CONTENTS: NINO AMIRIDZE, TAMAR RESECK & MANANA TOPADZE GAUMANN: Preface; KEVIN TUITE: The Kartvelian suffixal intransitive; ...
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a. ert+i+ert-one+NOM+one b. urt+i+ert+a-one+NOM+one+EPENTHETIC.VOWEL Example 2. Middle Georgian ert+man+ert-one+ERG+one Example 3. Modern Georgian a. ert+man+et-one+ERG+one b. ert+urt-one+one Example 4. Various mountainous dialects a.... more
a. ert+i+ert-one+NOM+one b. urt+i+ert+a-one+NOM+one+EPENTHETIC.VOWEL Example 2. Middle Georgian ert+man+ert-one+ERG+one Example 3. Modern Georgian a. ert+man+et-one+ERG+one b. ert+urt-one+one Example 4. Various mountainous dialects a. ert+man+ert-one+ERG+one b. ert+urc (< ert+urt+s) one+one(DAT) one+one+DAT
1.1. Georgian Reflexive Phrase POSS+tav- as a subject argument. Georgian has a complex reflexive, which consists of a nominal head (grammaticalized body-part noun tav-‘head’) preceded by a nominal specifier (possessive pronoun) (POSS1 +... more
1.1. Georgian Reflexive Phrase POSS+tav- as a subject argument. Georgian has a complex reflexive, which consists of a nominal head (grammaticalized body-part noun tav-‘head’) preceded by a nominal specifier (possessive pronoun) (POSS1 + tav-): (1) (me) čem-i tav-i davxat e I.ERG my-NOM self-NOM I.drew.him2 ‘I drew myself’ The reflexive phrase (for instance, čem-i tav-i in (1) is similar to other pronominal possessive constructions of the language (cf. (2)) with the possessor preceding a possessum, both marked by a case according to the syntactic function of the possessive NP in the sentence: (2) (me) čem-i saxl-i davxat e I.ERG my-NOM house-NOM I.drew.it ‘I drew my house’ Example (3) shows that Georgian anaphors are like English anaphors: they have to be bound locally and they require a c-commanding antecedent: ∗The paper is supported by the Language in Use project of the Utrecht Institute of Lin-guistics OTS, Utrecht University. I am grateful to Martin Everaert for his support a...
The dissertation investigates reflexivization strategies of Georgian (Kartvelian), a language with a split between the nominative and active alignment in both case and agreement marking. The work identifies one simplex and one complex... more
The dissertation investigates reflexivization strategies of Georgian (Kartvelian), a language with a split between the nominative and active alignment in both case and agreement marking. The work identifies one simplex and one complex nominal reflexivization strategies, both based on a grammaticalized body-part noun. A precise description of the strategies is offered within the Binding (Chomsky 1981) and Reflexivity Theories (Reinhart and Reuland 1993). Georgian additionally has a verbal reflexivization strategy, the prefix 'i-' which interacts in an interesting way with the nominal strategies. Reflexivity Theory makes it possible to study the behavior of the two nominal strategies with respect to the verbal strategy. Apart from describing the anaphoric system of Georgian the work offers a discussion on the apparent violations of principles of either the Binding Theory or the Reflexivity Theory. One of such violations is a non-anaphoric/pronominal use of the phrase formally ...
Research Interests: Sociology, Typology, Georgian Language, Syntax, Grammaticalization, and 15 moreLanguage Typology, Government and Binding Theory, Noun, Kartvelian Linguistics, Lot, Typological Linguistics, Reflexivization, Kartvelian, Georgian linguistics, Proxy reading, Object camouflage, Complex anaphor, Simplex Anaphor, Reflexivity framework, and Subject Anaphors
Georgian is a language allowing reflexives to be marked by ergative. The subject use of the Georgian reflexive phrase was first documented with causative verbs by Asatiani (1982). The later works such as (Amiridze and Everaert, 2000),... more
Georgian is a language allowing reflexives to be marked by ergative. The subject use of the Georgian reflexive phrase was first documented with causative verbs by Asatiani (1982). The later works such as (Amiridze and Everaert, 2000), (Amiridze, 2003), (Amiridze, 2004) discuss the use with object-experiencer verbs and transitive verbs on non-agentive reading. The present paper offers the first hand data on subject uses of the Georgian reflexive phrase with transitive verbs on their agentive reading in special contexts (such as a twin context, Madame Tussaud context, etc.) which are problematic for the Binding Theory of Chomsky (1981) as well as for the Reflexivity Theory of Reinhart and Reuland (1993). The data could be accounted for within the approach developed in (Reuland, 2001). However, the subject uses of the Georgian reciprocal ertmanetleave the issue of subject anaphors open.
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We discuss how word search is organized during self-initiated forward-oriented repair in scientific discussions on the example of Georgian. Originally, research on the problem of organization of repair in conversation was initiated by... more
We discuss how word search is organized during self-initiated forward-oriented repair in scientific discussions on the example of Georgian. Originally, research on the problem of organization of repair in conversation was initiated by Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks in [4]. In the forward-oriented case, the trouble source is yet to be produced: The speaker is still searching for a word. Greer in [2, 3] gives a four-step prototypical form of word search sequences in bilingual interaction. We argue that a similar form is maintained in the context of scientific discussions, even in monolingual cases. The cases we analyze are quite common in discussions about research, when the trouble source in the turnin-progress appears either due to its complexity, or due to a borrowed item without an adequate representation in the current language. The examples below are taken from the following context: A researcher A gives a presentation about some results in Unification Theory [1] (a subfield in...
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Georgian is spoken in Georgia in the Caucasus; it is a member of the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) family. The main purpose of this chapter is to give an impression of the wealth of natural language by highlighting those typological facts... more
Georgian is spoken in Georgia in the Caucasus; it is a member of the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) family. The main purpose of this chapter is to give an impression of the wealth of natural language by highlighting those typological facts that distinguish Georgian (and the Kartvelian family) from other languages. We may note from the outset that Modern Georgian is a typical SOV language, that it is non-configurational and is a candidate for ergativity, and that it has complex morphosyntax, partially inflectional, but predominantly agglutinative. An additional goal of section 1 of the chapter is to illustrate the application of relational grammar. Section 1 of this chapter treats the syntax of simple sentences, while section 2 discusses complex sentences. All the material presented in the paper is from Georgian.
Research Interests: Typology, Georgian Language, Syntax, Morphology, Kartvelian Morpho-Syntax, and 23 moreTense and Aspect Systems, Word order, Linguistic Typology, Relative Clauses, Ergativity, Voice, Subordination, Aspect, Kartvelian Languages, Georgian Studies, Complementation, Grammatical Relations, Agreement, Adverbial clauses, Case Marking, Inversion, Case system and grammatical relations, Kartvelian Linguistics, Complementizers, Relational Grammar, Split Ergativity, Grammatical Relations (Subjecthood and Termhood), and Agreement marking
Many languages have filler nouns like English thingummy, or German Dingsbums and Dingens, known also as ‘oblitive’ nouns. They refer to a person or thing whose name the speaker has forgotten, does not know or does not wish to mention.... more
Many languages have filler nouns like English thingummy, or German Dingsbums and Dingens, known also as ‘oblitive’ nouns. They refer to a person or thing whose name the speaker has forgotten, does not know or does not wish to mention. Modern Georgian has developed filler verbs that substitute for lexical verb forms in discourse, and thus function as placeholder verbs. This paper describes the form of the Georgian placeholder verbs and their use in discourse. Normally, the placeholder verbs are employed as a repair strategy in lexical access failure. However, the present paper deals with another use, namely, when placeholders are inserted in the speech intentionally, in order to make the implicated verb form either difficult or easy for the hearer to guess.
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This paper deals with a case of syntactic change in wish formulae in Georgian, namely the use of a verb form taking a certain number of arguments with the particle net'a(v)i “would that”, or with an optative enclitic -mc(a), so that the... more
This paper deals with a case of syntactic change in wish formulae in Georgian, namely the use of a verb form taking a certain number of arguments with the particle net'a(v)i “would that”, or with an optative enclitic -mc(a), so that the resulting formulae are given a 1-argument-less reading. The case exemplifies the mismatch between form and meaning and is claimed here to have undergone syntactic reanalysis. The data discussed are drawn from several dialectological sources.
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Georgian is usually described as a highly synthetic language. In this paper, we examine an analytical construction which emerged in the last few decades, possibly under the influence of a similar Russian construction. We examine the... more
Georgian is usually described as a highly synthetic language. In this paper, we examine an analytical construction which emerged in the last few decades, possibly under the influence of a similar Russian construction. We examine the structural similarities between the two constructions and focus on their discourse / pragmatic functions. We argue that the Georgian construction is used to make the speaker sound authoritative and official, while the Russian construction serves mostly to de-emphasize the role of the agent in an event. We explore the development of the Georgian construction and possible cultural routes by which it acquired its sociolinguistic load.
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This dissertation investigates Georgian (Kartvelian) reflexivization strategies within the Government and Binding (Chomsky 1981) and Reflexivity framework (Reinhart and Reuland 1993). It argues that Georgian possesses one simplex and one... more
This dissertation investigates Georgian (Kartvelian) reflexivization strategies within the Government and Binding (Chomsky 1981) and Reflexivity framework (Reinhart and Reuland 1993). It argues that Georgian possesses one simplex and one complex nominal reflexivization strategy, based on a grammaticalized body-part noun. This strategy interacts with a verbal reflexivization strategy.
This dissertation discusses a non-anaphoric use of the phrase formally identical with the complex nominal reflexivization strategy in Object Camouflage (Harris 1981). The contrasting behavior of the phrase as an anaphor and as a pronominal is argued to illustrate the grammaticalization process the body-part has undergone.
The present study observes several problems for the Binding and Reflexivity frameworks, such as the subject use of the Georgian complex nominal reflexivization strategy. If 'Himself is killing him' is ungrammatical in English, its Georgian equivalent is grammatical with the "aspect/property of” reading. This study discusses Madame Tussaud's and similar contexts that allow a proxy reading of Georgian anaphors in subject position. This use is a problem also for various other proposals in the generative literature that aim to explain the absence/presence of subject anaphors cross-linguistically.
This dissertation discusses a non-anaphoric use of the phrase formally identical with the complex nominal reflexivization strategy in Object Camouflage (Harris 1981). The contrasting behavior of the phrase as an anaphor and as a pronominal is argued to illustrate the grammaticalization process the body-part has undergone.
The present study observes several problems for the Binding and Reflexivity frameworks, such as the subject use of the Georgian complex nominal reflexivization strategy. If 'Himself is killing him' is ungrammatical in English, its Georgian equivalent is grammatical with the "aspect/property of” reading. This study discusses Madame Tussaud's and similar contexts that allow a proxy reading of Georgian anaphors in subject position. This use is a problem also for various other proposals in the generative literature that aim to explain the absence/presence of subject anaphors cross-linguistically.
Research Interests: Typology, Georgian Language, Syntax, Grammaticalization, Language Typology, and 13 moreGovernment and Binding Theory, Kartvelian Linguistics, Typological Linguistics, Reflexivization, Kartvelian, Georgian linguistics, Proxy reading, Object camouflage, Complex anaphor, Simplex Anaphor, Verbal Reflexivization Strategy, Reflexivity framework, and Subject Anaphors
It is well-known that nouns denoting the human body or parts of it are an important source of polysemy in the languages of the world. One such example, the development of Georgian 'tav-' "head" into a reflexive anaphor, is the object of... more
It is well-known that nouns denoting the human body or parts of it are an important source of polysemy in the languages of the world. One such example, the development of Georgian 'tav-' "head" into a reflexive anaphor, is the object of the present paper. After a typological overview of reflexivization strategies in Georgian, we present an account, both synchronic and diachronic, of the rise of various 'tav'-based strategies in grammaticalization terms. We then investigate motivations for the use of the fairly grammaticalized POSS + tav- strategy
in a peculiarity of Georgian syntax called Object camouflage, and finally discuss an intensifier reading of reflexives in subject function, suggesting a potential counterexample to the allegedly unidirectional development from intensifiers to reflexives.
in a peculiarity of Georgian syntax called Object camouflage, and finally discuss an intensifier reading of reflexives in subject function, suggesting a potential counterexample to the allegedly unidirectional development from intensifiers to reflexives.
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Standard Binding Theory does not give a straightforward account for the subject anaphor gap. Rizzi’s (1990) Anaphor Agreement Effect and its modified version (Woolford (1999)) were designed to account for that gap. The paper deals with... more
Standard Binding Theory does not give a straightforward account for the subject anaphor gap. Rizzi’s (1990) Anaphor Agreement Effect and its modified version (Woolford (1999)) were designed to account for that gap. The paper deals with Georgian anaphors representing counter-examples for both versions of the Anaphor Agreement Effect. It argues that the explanation for the presence of subject anaphors in Georgian can be given neither within Reinhart and Reuland’s (1993) “Reflexivity” framework as it was previously suggested in Anagnostopoulou and Everaert (1999) and Everaert (2001) for Greek and Georgian. In fact there is more than only the internal structure of anaphors and the related anaphoric properties responsible for the existence of subject anaphors.
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Georgian is a language allowing reflexives to be marked by ergative. The subject use of the Georgian reflexive phrase was first documented with causative verbs by Asatiani (1982). The later works such as (Amiridze and Everaert, 2000),... more
Georgian is a language allowing reflexives to be marked by ergative. The subject use of the Georgian reflexive phrase was first documented with causative verbs by Asatiani (1982). The later works such as (Amiridze and Everaert, 2000), (Amiridze, 2003), (Amiridze, 2004) discuss the use with object-experiencer verbs and transitive verbs on non-agentive reading. The present paper offers the first hand data on subject uses of the Georgian reflexive phrase with transitive verbs on their agentive reading in special contexts (such as a twin context, Madame Tussaud context, etc.) which are problematic for the Binding Theory of Chomsky (1981) as well as for the Reflexivity Theory of Reinhart and Reuland (1993). The data could be accounted for within the approach developed in (Reuland, 2001). However, the subject uses of the Georgian reciprocal ertmanet- leave the issue of subject anaphors open.
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Page 76. Placeholder verbs in Modern Georgian* Nino Amiridze Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Many languages have filler nouns like English thingummy, or German Dingsbums and Dingens, known also as... more
Page 76. Placeholder verbs in Modern Georgian* Nino Amiridze Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Many languages have filler nouns like English thingummy, or German Dingsbums and Dingens, known also as &amp;amp;#x27;oblitive&amp;amp;#x27;nouns. ...