The South Caucasian languages Boeder, Winfried
Lingua,
2005, 2005-1-00, 20050101, Letnik:
115, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
As part of a special issue of Lingua intended to provide up-to-date basic information on the Caucasian languages to general linguists in light of recent advances in syntactic analysis, international ...cooperation, & accessibility to fieldwork, a descriptive analysis of the phonology, inflectional & derivational morphology, & syntax of the South Caucasian languages presents comparative data from Old & Modern Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, & Svan. Particular attention is given to clause structure, case alignment & agreement phenomena, & the verb system; in addition to an account of all 16 morpheme positions in the Modern Georgian verb, evidential inflection in Mingrelian is described to illustrate one of the few features of South Caucasian verb inflection not present in the standard form of Modern Georgian. Categories traditionally characterized as screeves, verb series, & version are clarified with respect to sets of grammatical functions they express, particularly aspect & valency. 9 Tables, 1 Appendix, 251 References. J. Hitchcock
As R. Kayne (1994) has shown, the theory of antisymmetry of syntax also provides an explanation of a structural property of morphological complexes, the right-hand head rule. In this paper we show ...that an antisymmetry approach to this rule eventually is to be preferred on empirical grounds, because it describes & explains the properties of a set of hitherto puzzling morphological processes - known as discontinuous affixation, circumfixation or parasynthesis. In considering these & a number of more standard morphological structures, we argue that one difference bearing on the proper balance between morphology & syntax should be re-installed (re- with respect to Kayne), a difference between the antisymmetry of the syntax of morphology & the antisymmetry of the syntax of syntax proper. 13 References. Adapted from the source document
