LINGUIST List 22.570 Wed Feb 02 2011 Qs: Chechen: Descriptive Grammar Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Katharina Schwabl , Chechen: Descriptive Grammar Message 1: Chechen: Descriptive Grammar Date: 27-Jan-2011 From: Katharina Schwabl <katharina.schwabledu.uni-graz.at> Subject: Chechen: Descriptive Grammar E-mail this message to a friend Dear colleagues, I'm looking for a descriptive grammar of the Chechen language. It should be in English, German, or French since I'm not capable of reading in Russian. I'm working on a PhD-thesis on immigrants acquiring German as a second language. I didn't plan to include people with Chechen as an L1, because I'm not familiar with their first langauge. For practical reasons (there are a lot more Chechen people than I thought) I changed my mind. Now I'd like to have background information on the language they are starting from, the phonological system, morphological categories, and sentence structure. The only thing I've found and read so far is Dirr, Adolf: Einführung in das Studium der kaukasischen Sprachen. Zentralarchiv der DDR, 1978 (first puplished in 1928). As you can see, this is really old and the chapter on the Chechen language is only a few pages. I've come acrosss the name of Johanna Nichols when looking for appropriate literature and would be interested in her contribution on Chechen in: Smeets, Rieks (ed.): The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, Vol 4, Part 2: The North East Caucasian Languages. New York: Caravan Books, 1994. But I wasn't sure if it's worth buying the book, someone might be able to give me feedback on this. Further I found this article: Good, Jeff (2003): Clause combining in Chechen. Studies in Language 27/1. That's all I have for now. It's not a lot. I'd be glad if someone could give me advice. Do you have any suggestions for me? Thank you all in advance, Kathi Schwabl Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics                             Typology Subject Language(s): Chechen (che) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.