Adyghe, like all the languages of its West Caucasian family, displays most characteristics
that typologists associate with polysynthesis. In section 1, we give the general information …

This grammar should be used with some caution, not only because it was written by a
linguist who is far from being a fluent speaker of Kabardian. It is largely compilatory in …

In traditional grammars of Kabardian, transitive and intransitive verbs are represented as
having different rules of case assignment, as well as different order of personal prefixes. This …

Kabardian (NW Caucasian) is an ergative language spoken chiefly in the Kabardino-Balkar
Republic of the Russian Federation. The basic word order is SOV, but other word orders are …

This paper presents the basic typological properties of the causative construction in
Kabardian, using Dixon's (2000) typology of causatives, and points out some of its cross …

The purpose of this paper is to present data on a particular syntactic phenomenon in
Kabardian, which is variously referred to as" backward control" and" long distance …

The two main branches of the NW Caucasian family, Abkhaz-Abaza and Circassian, are
typologically similar to a remarkable degree, although they are not genetically closely …

0.1. Kabardian (East Circassian) is an ergative head-marking language spoken in the
Caucasus (NW Caucasian, Adyghe-Kabardian subgroup; ca. 500 000 speakers). It is …