Languages and Cultures of the Caucasus

A Festschrift for Kevin Tuite

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This anthology presents current findings from Caucasus Studies. The focus is on contributions from the fields of linguistics, history and socio-cultural anthropology. All authors share a close relationship with the outstanding Caucasus researcher Kevin Tuite, whose lifework is honoured with …

The Nominal Domain in Georgian

A diachronic analysis

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The present book analyzes the nominal domain in the Georgian language in its diachronic development. In Georgian, the noun phrase went through crucial changes over the centuries on various levels -- morphological, morpho-syntactic, syntactic, semantic, and typological. The peculiarities of …

Die Entwicklungstendenzen des Passivs in der georgischen Schriftsprache

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This monograph analyses the grammatical, pragmatic, communicative and lexical-stylistic functions of different subgroups of synthetic dynamic passives in Georgian. They differ from the standard average European type, and the complexity of Georgian verbal diathesis is of a more general linguistic …

Zur Hypotaxe in den Kartvelsprachen

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This book deals with the problem of hypotactic structures in the Kartvelian, videlicet, South Caucasian languages and represents a comprehensive study of speech reporting in these languages. The most dominant member of this language family, Georgian, which takes recourse to …

Fokuspartikeln und Wortstellung im Georgischen

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The topic of the book is the so called “Focus particles” and their interaction with the word order regularities in Georgian, as the most prominent representative of the south caucasian or Kartvelian language family of the official language of the …