… and clause structure. The general aim of this book is to contribute to a broader understanding
of clause structure in languages with ergative systems. The Circassian languages are …

… a novel diagnostic for clause structure in West Circassian, a … multiple wh-agreement in
relative clauses. I argue that wh-… constituents in the West Circassian clause. By appealing to well-…

… It is characteristic for the languages of the Abkhazo-Circassian group that in the predicate
of each clause all clause actants are paralleled by their markers, which are arranged in the …

… In Section 6 I provide evidence for the hypothesis that the West Circassian nominal complex
is … If the relative clause consists of several words, as in (36) above, we will get a structure like …

… clauses have the same basic syntactic structure: they are all complex DPs containing relative
clauses, … reasons to posit structural ambiguity for the mystery clauses considered here. Our …

… To summarize, West Circassian is polysynthetic and displays ergative alignment in both
agreement and case marking. In terms of clause structure, the ergative and applied arguments …

… structure of this paper is as follows. In Section 2 I provide the most basic facts about the
morphological structure of West Circassian … If the relative clause consists of several words, as in (…

… constructions in West Circassian are the manifestation of a … for West Circassian being
syntactically ergative in the structural … argument in the clause, the relative clause may contain more …

… In this section, we briefly introduce some aspects of complex verbal morphology and the
basic structure of matrix declarative clauses by looking at the morphosyntactic properties of …

… ) and his recently published grammatical sketch (2006), and the largely outdated monograph
by Aert Kuipers (1960), this is, to my knowledge, the only general overview of the structure …