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This is a draft version of the bibliography on Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) languages prepared for Oxford Bibliographies online. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0151.xml
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After giving a general account of ditransitive constructions in East Caucasian languages, the paper focuses on the most salient and unique property of ‘give’-verbs in the languages of the family – the distinction made between two types of transfer. This distinction reflects the double nature of ‘give’-situations which involve both metaphorical transfer of possession rights and physical transfer of the object, and the consequent double nature of the Recipient which combines properties of a Beneficiary and a Goal. East Caucasian languages break Recipient down into two different marking strategies which may be called dative and lative, respectively. After giving a brief introduction to genetic grouping and areal spread of the family, as well as sketches its typological profile, we provide a general characteristic of the ditransitive constructions. Then we discuss some specific properties of dative marking in East Caucasian, focussing on the alternation in Recipient/Goal marking in ‘giv...
Folia Linguistica Historica
Clusivity and the history of personal pronouns in East Caucasian2021 •
Personal pronouns are among the most stable lexemes in the East Caucasian family, which consists of at least forty different languages distributed over eight well established branches, with nevertheless important variations and paradigmatic reshaping across branches, languages, and even dialects. The 1st and 2nd singular pronouns have been replaced or changed shape at least once in many subparts of the family, and the main 1st person singular innovation was apparently followed by areal spread. Most languages retain two different pronouns for the 1st person plural European pronoun, but the cognates are not always clear, suggesting that although clusivity is an inherited feature of East Caucasian pronominal paradigms, its history is complex, with various types of loss and renewal. This paper attempts to draw a fine-grained and accurate picture of these 1st person plural pronouns and their history within the larger setting of personal pronouns in general. Most individual stories behind variation across branches, languages and dialects provide reasons to see inclusive pronouns as prone to be maintained or renewed over time, whereas exclusive pronouns (1st person singular or plural) are specially targeted by avoidance and replacement processes.
This paper reexamines the evidence for early contacts between Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the languages of the Caucasus. Although we were not able to find certain proofs of lexical borrowing between PIE and North Caucasian, there are a few undeniable areal-typological parallels in phonology and grammar. Some features generally attributed to PIE are not found in the majority of languages of North and Northeastern Eurasia, while they are common, or universally present, in the languages of the Caucasus (especially North Caucasus). Those features include the high consonant-to-vowel ratio, tonal accent, number suppletion in personal pronouns, the presence of gender and the morphological optative and, possibly, the presence of glottalized consonants and ergativity.
East Caucasian languages feature a cross-linguistically rare presence of two alternative ways to express Recipients with the verb ‘give’. This feature is consistently present throughout the family and displays amazingly subtle semantic parallels in all its languages. At first glance, the distinction between two Recipients seems to be a very elaborate semantic opposition that is more expected of a legal cobweb than of a linguistic system. I suggest that in fact the difference lies in two different conceptualizations of the Recipient - as Goal vs. Beneficiary (prospective Possessor), well know from various approaches to the Dative but realized in East Caucasian in a very peculiar morphosyntactic pattern.
Caucasian languages are well-known for their often baroque systems of morphology, but when it comes to suppletion very little is known both about how often Caucasian languages have suppletion, what features undergo processes of suppletion, and whether patterns of suppletion show areal or phylogenetic tendencies. This paper surveys various systems of suppletion in Caucasian languages and finds both little evidence of language contact resulting in suppletion, but also that suppletion arises only in preexisting grammatical categories, and results from a variety of different grammaticalization pathways.
In: J. van der Auwera and B. Kortmann (eds), The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: a Comprehensive Guide. (The World of Linguistics. Vol. 1.) Berlin, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 125-157.
2011. [Michael Daniel and Yury Lander] The Caucasian languages2011 •
Basque and Its Closest Relatives: A New Paradigm
Basque and Its Closest Relatives: A New Paradigm (annotated December 2017)2017 •
This book surveys earlier attempts to demonstrate a genetic relationship between the Basque language and various languages in the Caucasus, and analyzes their shortcomings in methods and focus, while acknowledging a residue of valid evidence, assembled over the course of more than a century. The author has added to the earlier evidence: the current book proposes more than 600 Euskaro-Caucasian etymologies. The focus is placed on the comparison of Basque with North Caucasian. (In this model, “South Caucasian” [Kartvelian] is “unrelated” to the other two families.) The book also includes a comprehensive comparative/historical system of Euskaro-Caucasian phonology, which analyzes regular correspondences of vowels (including a postulated Euskaro-Caucasian ablaut system), vowel umlaut, unit consonants and consonant clusters, and “irregular” phonetic developments (metathesis, haplology, assimilation, dissimilation, expressive forms, contamination and blending). There is an overall emphasis on lexicon (etymology) and phonology; morphology occupies a comparatively smaller place, though there are discussions of productive and submerged morphology (chapter V), pronouns, (pp. 406-412), and verbs (pp. 413-443). Finally, the book includes the proposal of a holistic anthropological scenario for the Euskaro-Caucasian hypothesis, in which results from genetic linguistics, archaeology, and human genetics are synthesized, concluding that a population speaking a Euskaro-Caucasian language arrived on the coast of Spain ca. 7.5 – 8 millennia ago, bearing a Neolithic culture that included cultivation and processing of grain and pulse crops, husbandry of small and large cattle and swine, and dairying practices. Recent genetic results indicate that the transmission of this language and culture to the present-day Basque Country was primarily by demic diffusion, with some secondary admixture with local hunter-gatherers. The evidence shows that the modern Basque language is not a lineal descendant of the unknown language(s) spoken by European Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, but rather the descendant of a colonial language that arrived in Iberia no more than eight thousand years ago.
The Oxford Handbook of the Languages of the Caucasus
Word Stress in Languages of the Caucasus2020 •
Editorial board: Gilles Authier, Hélène Gérardin, Magomed I. Magomedov, Timur A. Maisak; Compiled by Timur A. Maisak. / Makhachkala: IYaLI DNC RAN, 2017. – 210 p.
Historical Linguistics of the Caucasus: Book of abstracts2017 •
Slovo a slovesnost
Where there is fire, there is smoke" : a study in the Euskaro-Caucasian hypothesis2019 •
Linguistic Typology 23(1), 59–106
Elevation as a category of grammar: Sanzhi Dargwa and beyond2019 •
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2020 •
Journal of Language Relationship / Вопросы языкового родства 6: 25-63.
On the Burushaski–Indo-European hypothesis by I. Čašule.2011 •
2021 •
Bochum: Brockmeyer, 2011. — 204 pp. (Diversitas Linguarum, 30)
Tense, aspect, modality and finiteness in East Caucasian languages2011 •
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Causativization and contact in Nakh-Daghestanian2014 •
Journal of Language Relationship • Вопросы языкового родства
О бурушаски-индоевропейской гипотезе И. Чашуле | On the Burushaski–Indo-European hypothesis by I. Čašule2011 •
Fontes Linguae Vasconum Studia Et Documenta
Correspondences of Basque and Caucasic final vowels: -i/-e, -u/-o1996 •
2021 •
Languages of the Caucasus 5
A history of the vowel systems of the Nakh languages (East Caucasian), with special reference to umlaut in Chechen and Ingush2021 •
Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds.), Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics) Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 116–145.
GRAMMATICALIZATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASIAN LANGUAGESInternational Journal of Bilingualism
Contact-induced usages of volitional moods in East Caucasian languages2016 •