Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics : Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson / edited by Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite.

This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths....

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Other Authors:	Aronson, Howard I. (Howard Isaac), 1936-, Holisky, Dee Ann, Tuite, Kevin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2003.
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 246.
Subjects:	LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems. Language and languages Slawistik Taalkunde. Former Soviet republics > Languages. Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics Asiatische Sprachen. Festschriften Festschriften.
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CURRENT TRENDS IN CAUCASIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND INNER ASIAN LINGUISTICS
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Languages of the Caucasus
2. Siberian indigenous languages
3. Slavic
4. Acknowledgements
REFERENCES
FOREWORD
THE PUBLICATIONS OF HOWARD I. ARONSON
In Press and Forthcoming
TOWARDS A PHONOLOGICA L TYPOLOGY OF NATIVE SIBERIA
1.m/n/ñ/{489}
2. Initial
2.1 Word-initial
2.2 in syllable-onset position in non-word-initial syllables
2.3 On in the languages of Siberia
3. Conclusions
REFERENCES.
ON THE SYNTAX OF POSSESSIVE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS INMODERN GEORGIAN AND CERTAIN INDO-EUROPEANLANGUAGES
REFERENCES
HOW MANY VERB CLASSES ARE THERE IN MINGRELIAN?
1. Introduction
2. General comments on Mingrelian verbal classification
3. Various criteria which do not help to distinguish Class 4
4. Areas for further research
4.1 Screeve distribution
4.2 Animacy of arguments
4.3 Work with native consultants
5. Conclusions
REFERENCES
MORE PONTICFURTHER ETYMOLOGIES BETWEEN INDO-EUROPEAN AND NORTHWEST CAUCASIAN
KEY TO NOTATION
REFERENCES.
THE BULGARIANS OF MOLDOVA AND THEIR LANGUAGE
1. The Bulgarians of Moldova
2. Studying the Bulgarian of Moldova
3. The Dialectal Membership of Moldovan Bulgarian
4. Linguistic Features of the Moldovan Dialects of Bulgarian
4.1 Phonology: The vocalic system
4.2 Phonology: The consonantal system
4.3 Morphology: Divergences from the standard
5, Conclusions
REFERENCES
LEGALDOCUMENTS
INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED WITH THE FOLLOWING PERSONS:
LAKFOLKTALES: MATERIALS FOR A BILINGUAL READER:PART TWO
1. Forward
2. Introduction
3. Abbreviations
4. Tale Two.
5. Vocabulary
TYPOLOGY OF WRITING, GREEK ALPHABET, AND THEORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC SCRIPTS OF THE CHRISTIAN ORIENT
1. Writing as a semiotic system
2. The 'Plane of content' and the 'Plane of expression ' of writing
3. 'Paradigmatics' and 'Syntagmatics' of writing
4. Ancient Greek as an earliest sample of alphabetic writing
5. Alphabetic scripts of the Christian Orient
6. Alphabetic system
a final stage in the development of writing?
REFERENCES
THE CASE FOR DIALECT CONTINUA IN TUNGUSIC PLURAL MORPHOLOGY
1. Introduction.
2. The Geography and Dialects of Northwest ern Tungusic
3. Interpreting the Distribution of Plurals in Northwestern Tungusic
4. Dominant Plural Markers
5. Secondary Plurals
5.1 Kinship terms
5.2 Duals and Collectives
6. Residual Plurals
6.1 Residual plurals in Northwestern Tungusic
6.3 Residual plural morphemes in other Tungusic languages
7. Conclusion
REFERENCES
DIALECT/LANGUAGE ABBREVIATIONS USED ON THE MAP""PLURALS IN TUNGUSIC DIALECTS""
INGUSH INFLECTIONAL VERB MORPHOLOGYA SYNCHRONIC CLASSIFICATION AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS WITH COMPARISON TO CHECHEN.

Current Trends in Caucasian, East European, and Inner Asian Linguistics : Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson / edited by Dee Ann Holisky, Kevin Tuite.

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