LINGUIST List 17.1324

Sat Apr 29 2006

Books: Language Description/Typology: Colarusso

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, Karbardian: Colarusso
Message 1: Karbardian: Colarusso
Date: 26-Apr-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Karbardian: Colarusso


Title: Karbardian Subtitle: East Circassian Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 200 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Author: John Colarusso, McMaster University Paperback: ISBN: 3895862452 Pages: 122 Price: Europe EURO 48
Abstract:

Kabardian, the eastern form of Circassian, is a member of the NorthwestCaucasian language family, which includes the Western Circassian or Adighédialects, the transitional Besleney Circassian, the distinct Abkhaz and itsclosely related, Abaza, and Ubykh, transitional between Circassian andAbkhaz-Abaza. It is native to the northwestern portion of the Caucasuswhere it is spoken by roughly 360,000 people. It is the household languageof a large portion of the 4.5 million Circassian of the diaspora (Turkey,Jordan, Syria, Israel, with a few communities in Europe and the UnitedStates). The languages of this family are notable for their extremecomplexity at all levels of grammar. While Karbadian is quite richsyntactically, morphologically, and phonologically, it is the simplestmember of the family phonetically, with only 49 consonants, where Ubykh 81for a maximum. The grammar includes chapters on Phonetics, Phonology,Inflectional Morphology, Derivational Morphology, Discourse, and a sampletext.

Table of ContentsAbbreviations0. Introduction0.1. Social setting0.2. Linguistic typology1. Phonetics1.1. Inventory1.2. Consonants1.3. Vowels1.4. Syllable canon1.5. Vowel coloring2. Phonology2.1. Stress2.2. Schwa2.3. Assimilation of vowels to syllable rhyme (Auslaut)2.4. Stressed (or reducing) /a/ (/ee/)2.5. Recursive reduction of /a/2.6. Stable /a/2.7 Consonantal phonology2.8. Reduction of plural suffix before predicative complementizer3. Inflectional Morphology3.1. Nominal inflection3.2. Pronominal inflection3.3. Possession3.4. Adjectives3.5. Postpositions3.6. Verbal inflection4. Derivational Morphology4.1. Noun formation4.2. Verb formation4.3. Adjective formation4.4. Counting and Quantification5. Syntax5.1. Ergativity5.1.1. Case-marking and word order5.1.2. Symmetry Breaking5.1.3. PTF, the priority of transitive fulfillment5.1.4. Animacy hierarchy5.1.5. Switch reference5.1.6. Passives5.1.7. Di-transitives5.1.8. Anti-ergatives5.1.9. Causatives5.1.10. Transitivity reduction of a "strong" di-transitive5.1.11. Subject demotion in aversive forms5.1.12. Oblique (logical) subjects5.2. Split anaphors5.2.1. Reflexives (ergative)5.2.2. Reciprocals (anti-ergative)5.3. Relative clauses5.3.1. Restrictive relatives5.3.2. Non-restrictive relatives clause5.3.3. Headless relatives5.3.4. Relative clauses and the overlap of control categories(cross-over violations)5.4. Embedded clauses5.4.1. Embedded clauses5.5. Verb-chaining with generic object5.5.1. Copying of [+generic] of the absolutive onto the verb5.5.2. Plural copying of the absolutive onto the verb5.6. Rightward movement6. Discourse6.1. Causal sequences6.2. Conjunction6.3. Tense-suppression in linked verbsText sampleBibliography

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Linguistic Field(s): Language Description                             Typology
Subject Language(s): Kabardian (kbd)
Written In: English (eng )

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