The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax (Languages of the Caucasus) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3961102090 ISBN 13: 9783961102099

Verlag: Freie Universität Berlin Universitätsbibliothek, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This book is an investigation into the grammar of Mehweb (Dargwa, East Caucasian also known as Nakh-Daghestanian) based on several years of team fieldwork. Mehweb is spoken in one village community in Daghestan, Russia, with a population of some 800 people, In many ways, Mehweb is a typical East Caucasian language: it has a rich inventory of consonants; an extensive system of spatial forms in nouns and converbs and volitional forms in verbs; pervasive gender-number agreement; and ergative alignment in case marking and in gender agreement. It is also a typical language of the Dargwa branch, with symmetrical verb inflection in the imperfective and perfective paradigm and extensive use of spatial encoding for experiencers. Although Mehweb is clearly close to the northern varieties of Dargwa, it has been long isolated from the main body of Dargwa varieties by speakers of Avar and Lak. As a result of both independent internal evolution and contact with its neighbours, Mehweb developed some deviant properties, including accusatively aligned egophoric agreement, a split in the feminine class, and the typologically rare grammatical categories of verificative and apprehensive. But most importantly, Mehweb is where our friends live.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Freie Universität Berlin Universitätsbibliothek
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3961102090
• ISBN 13: 9783961102099
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 341
• Herausgeber: Daniel Michael, Dobrushina Nina, Ganenkov Dmitry
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