Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how …
The South Caucasian languages, also called ''Kartvelian''after their historically and numerically dominant member, Georgian (G kartv-el-'Georgian (person)'), comprises …
A parametric grammar of Seediq Page 1 Arthur Holmer A parametric grammar of Seediq This is an application of GB Grammar to the Austronesian language Seediq spoken in Taiwan …
In this thesis I investigate the degree of transparency of 22 languages. Transparency is defined as the extent to which a language maintains one-to-one relations between units at …
Feature stability, time and tempo of change, and the role of genealogy versus areality in creating linguistic diversity are important issues in current computational research on …
This paper presents a survey of complementation strategies that are employed in Pazar and Ardesheni dialects of Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language that has been in …
S Béjar, M Rezac - WCCFL 41, 2023 - shs.hal.science
Cyclic Agree and the Person Licensing Condition predict ungrammaticality for a wide range of argument combinations in Georgian, incorrectly, though both have been used to explain …
D Erschler - Languages of the Caucasus, 2015 - escholarship.org
Georgian and Svan exhibit a construction similar to classical sluicing: that is, translational analogs are grammatical of sentences like 'Mary cooked something, but I don't know what'. I …