Morphology of the Caucasian Languages: A Typological Overview-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Morphology of the Caucasian Languages: A Typological Overview

Published:2022-09-27 Issue:1 Volume:28 Page:
ISSN:1581-1255
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Author:

Arkadiev Peter

Abstract

The indigenous languages of the Caucasus (Nakh-Daghestanian, Abkhazo-Agyghean and Kartvelian) present a remarkable degree of diversity in their morphological systems, both between and within larger genealogical units and even closely-related varieties. This article is an attempt to present a theoretically and typologically informed overview of the major parameters of morphological variation of the Caucasian languages and to highlight a number of non-trivial and rare phenomena found in their morphology. The phenomena discussed include locus of marking, types of affixal and non-affixal exponence, non-trivial form-meaning relations, and manifestations of polysynthesis.

Publisher

The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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