Morphology, understood as internal structure of words, has always figured prominently in
linguistic typology, and it is with the morphological classification of languages into …

This chapter describes the major features of the Northwest Caucasian (Abkhaz-Adyghe)
language family, comprising Abkhaz, Abaza, West Circassian (Adyghe), East Circassian …

Abstract In polysynthetic West Caucasian languages, the morphological verbal complex
amounts to a clause with all kinds of participants cross-referenced by affixes. Relativization …

Polysynthesis has fascinated linguists ever since polysynthetic languages, characterised by
exceptional morphological complexity of verbs, have come to their attention. However …

This study, in order to be a contribution to the diachronic typology of applicative
constructions, aimed to find possible correlations between diachronic sources of …

• Evans & Sasse (2002: 3):“Essentially, then, a prototypical polysynthetic language is one in
which it is possible, in a single word, to use processes of morphological composition to …

The linguistic phenomenon to be studied in this thesis is applicativization and applicative
construction. In applicative construction, an argument of a verb which would otherwise be …

В статье рассматриваются системы глаголов падения в адыгейском и кабардино-
черкесском языках на типологическом фоне. К анализу привлекаются корпусные …

Some recent definitions:• Evans & Sasse (2002: 3):“Essentially, then, a prototypical
polysynthetic language is one in which it is possible, in a single word, to use processes of …

Applicatives appear to be very common cross-linguistically, especially in agglutinative
languages with rich verbal morphology (see Peterson 1999, 2007 for a survey of 50 …