LINGUIST List 10.684

Thu May 6 1999

Books: Indo-European Linguistics

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LINCOM EUROPA, Modern Eastern Armenian, N. Kozintseva

Message 1: Modern Eastern Armenian, N. Kozintseva

Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 19:41:51 +0200
From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de>
Subject: Modern Eastern Armenian, N. Kozintseva

MODERN EASTERN ARMENIAN Natalia Kozintseva, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Modern Eastern Armenian (MEA) is spoken in Armenia by about 2.7 million people, where it is the standard language. It belongs to the Indo-European stock, within which it constitutes an isolated branch. The present sketch deals mainly with the grammatical description of MEA. Nouns have a singular/plural number distinction, a postpositive definite article, a prepositive indefinite article, five cases (nominative=accusative, genitive=dative, instrumental, ablative, locative). The word order is relatively free (non-rigid SOV). The subject is usually placed before or after the predicate, the complements and adverbial modifiers may be placed before or after the predicate, depending on the functional sentence perspective. In the noun phrase, the attribute always precedes the noun. Postpositions prevail over prepositions. Especial attention is paid to verbal categories (voice, aspect, tense, and mood in their relation to the syntactic structure of the sentence). The sketch is supplemented with an original MEA text and an extensive bibliography.

Natalia Koztseva is the author of the monograph Temporal Localization of Action and its Relation to the Aspectual, Modal and Taxic Meanings, 1991, Leningrad: Nauka (in Russian) and a number of articles on MEA written within the theoretical tradition of St. Petersburg Group of Typological Research. The author is member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

ISBN 3895860352. Languages of the World/Materials 22. 57 pp. USD 32.50 / DM 49.30 / \163 19.90. Info: LINCOM EUROPA, Paul-Preuss-Str. 25, D-80995 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 3148909; LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de; http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA

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