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 …
This dissertation examines the syntax of clausal structure in Tseltal (Mayan) with a particular focus on agreement phenomena. The first domain of investigation is the External …
K Shklovsky - The Linguistic Review, 2012 - degruyter.com
In this paper I show that in Tseltal (Mayan), constructions with aspectual auxiliary only admit third-person internal arguments, whereas embedding verbs that assign ergative case exhibit …
PM Arkadiev - Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect, and …, 2009 - torrossa.com
This paper deals with different components of aspectual interpretation in Adyghe, a polysynthetic North-West Caucasian language, and hierarchical relations among them …
AB Applebaum, AL Berez - 2009 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
The documentation available for any particular language can heavily influence the scope of linguistic theory. As such, comprehensive documentation must capture a variety of types of …
B Bizhoev, Z Cherkesova… - European Proceedings of … - europeanproceedings.com
The subject of this article analysis is a sufficiently meaningful and poorly studied area of the Adyghe language picture of the world-representation of the category of quantity in modern …
The Theory of Principles and Parameters has been developing within the framework of generative grammar since the early 1980's (cf. Chomsky 1981, Chomsky 1995). This theory …
This paper will focus on the interaction and resolution of different factors which contribute to the aspectual interpretation of phrases and sentences, exemplified by data from Adyghe …