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Budugh, a highly endangered language of Azerbaijan, has causal-noncausal verb pairs, which can be... more Budugh, a highly endangered language of Azerbaijan, has causal-noncausal verb pairs, which can be analytic and equipollent, or synthetic and directed (causative or anticausative). We present here the synthetic anticausative derivation, available only in the imperfective aspect, and the corresponding labile perfective forms, their formation and usage, as well as semantic shifts associated with this valence change. Semantically regular alternating verbs are verbs of transformation or of controlled movement. More irregular are those belonging to derivational networks employing different spatial preverbs, and the possibility of anticausative derivation appears clearly linked to the overall meaning of the verb rather than to its root. Trends are identified that shed light on the history of the verbal lexicon diachronically, through internal or external comparison.

Linguistic Diversity in Azerbaijan: Present State and Future Challenges, 2023

Thanks to the discovery in Mount Sinai Monastery of the Albanian palimpsest, which contains fragm... more Thanks to the discovery in Mount Sinai Monastery of the Albanian palimpsest, which contains fragments of the Bible in an ancient form of Udi, this language has become the earliest attested member of the East Caucasian family. However, due to its long evolution in contact with unrelated languages, both old and modern Udi show many characteristics unknown to their closest relatives, including Differential Object Marking. Combined with ergative case marking, this feature results in a rare 'tripartite alignment'. After describing the case marking of arguments in Lezgian, modern dialects of Udi and the three non-East Caucasian languages of the area (Tat, Azeri and Armenian) showing Differential Object Marking, we examine the available Old Udi / Caucasian Albanian data, compare them with data from Old Armenian, Old Turkic and Middle Iranian, and try to assess the best candidate for the source of the Udi phenomenon in the light of what is known about its history in terms of contact and sociolinguistic dominance.

Archi is a one-village language (1,000 speakers) belonging to the Lezgic branch of East Caucasian... more Archi is a one-village language (1,000 speakers) belonging to the Lezgic branch of East Caucasian. It has a large and productive class of compound verbs combining a light verb and 'coverbs' of nominal, adjectival, verbal or unknown origin. It stands out among its closest relatives in the way it has created, under the impulse of Lak, a large class of compounds using the verb bos 'say'. We consider all coverbs used with bos and its allomorphs to be ideophones and propose a semantic classification of all ideophonic verbal compounds: sound and speech verbs, verbs of non-auditory sensations, ingestion, movement, and effort-demanding activities. All primary data were extracted with partial paradigms and some examples from Chumakina et al.'s Archi online dictionary. Their phonotactic shapes, not substantially different from other parts of speech, are examined, as well as borrowings and specific 'children speech' ideophones. East Caucasian, Archi, compound verbs, ideophones

Rutul dialects belong, along with dialects of the Tsakhur language, to the Western Lezgic branch ... more Rutul dialects belong, along with dialects of the Tsakhur language, to the Western Lezgic branch of the East Caucasian family, and show typical features thereof. Rutul is divided up into two closely related languages, Northern Rutul and Southern Rutul, with hardly any intercomprehension between both. This paper is the first attempt at describing one of the two Southern Rutul dialects, Khnov, in all of its main features, based on admittedly limited material, collected by the author in the Azerbaijanian town of Sheki in 2021. This dialect is close but clearly distinct from the main Southern Rutul dialect also spoken in the same region of Azerbaijan, known as Shin-Borch.

This collection of papers deals with the morphosyntax of verbal categories in a broad sample of l... more This collection of papers deals with the morphosyntax of verbal categories in a broad sample of languages spoken in the Eastern Caucasus. Most of these languages are genetically related and belong to the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) family, but similarities with surrounding Turkic or North-West Caucasian languages are also touched upon in some of the contributions. MARINA CHUMAKINA's paper "Morphological complexity of Archi verbs" offers a typical example, based on a single and very small, but well studied language, of how verbal forms are built in most East Caucasian languages; TIMUR MAISAK's contribution then studies the present and the future forms within the Lezgic tense and aspect systems focussing on one branch of the family, while a paper by GILLES AUTHIER "From adlocative case to debitive mood without desubordination in Budugh and Kryz" zooms on an understudied sub-branch to address a current debate on morpheme polycategoriality. NINA ...

Probably the majority of languages display differen t adnominal possessive constructions, hereaft... more Probably the majority of languages display differen t adnominal possessive constructions, hereafter called “genitive splits” d etermined by parameters such as the type of possessum, the type of the poss essor and the type of the relation between both (see Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2003; Lander 2009). However, such oppositions are only very rarely conv eyed by contrasting different genitive exponents. Rather, these splits usually involve variations in locus, i.e. the participant associated morphosyn tactically with possessive marking are expressed by oppositions between the ge nitive and other constructions. A genitive morpheme or adposition is as ociated with the possessor (dependent-marking), and / or a possessiv e marker is found on the possessum (head-marking). The most common split triggering morphosyntactic di fferences in possessive NPs is between different kinds of posses sors. The use of a genitive marker is restricted to certain classes of n minals (animacy factor), or, more broadl...

This paper deals with the detransitive voice in Kry z, an unwritten language belonging to the Lez... more This paper deals with the detransitive voice in Kry z, an unwritten language belonging to the Lezgic branch of the North-East Ca ucasian family. Nowadays three dialects of Kryz (Kryz proper, Jek, and Alik-Khaput) are spoken as a first language by at most 2000 speakers in fewer than ten localities of north-eastern Azerbaijan. Despite gen eralized bilingualism in Azerbaijani, Kryz preserves typical Proto-Lezgic fe atures. In particular, gender-number agreement with S/P (Single argument o r Patient) nouns is preor infixed to the lexical stems of simple verb s, which form a closed class. Person is expressed by free pronouns. Word o rder is strictly possessor-possessed, adjective-noun, and basically Agent-Patient-Verb; case marking and cross-referencing on the verb is g enerally ergative. Valency increase is expressed periphrastically, usi ng auxiliaries (‘do’ or ‘give’). The Kryz detransitive synthetic voice, to be described in this paper, is an unexpected singularity within Lezgic 3 an...

In Budugh, a small Daghestanian language spoken in Azerbaijan, verb-stems, defined as verb forms ... more In Budugh, a small Daghestanian language spoken in Azerbaijan, verb-stems, defined as verb forms uninflected for tense or mood, can be used either as dependent of nouns (‘participles’) and other predicates (verbal nouns or hereafter ‘masdars’, and ‘sequential converbs’) or as finite non-indicative verb forms, that is with modal use, especially in a variety of injunctive nuances. The main distinction between dependent and independent uses is prosodic: dependent verb forms adopt the prosodic features of nouns, while the same forms, if syntactically independent, share the same prosodic pattern as other indicative or more complex modal forms which are segmentally marked (suffixed) as such.

A finite modal form with debitive meaning is found in both Kryz and Budugh, most often ending in ... more A finite modal form with debitive meaning is found in both Kryz and Budugh, most often ending in -u which seems to be the nominal adlocative case marker. Budugh uses the same form as a nominalized, non finite form, while Kryz does not. This seems to indicate that the grammaticalization process by which a case, when added to a verb stem, may come to express modality, does not necessarily imply a nominalized stage followed by desubordination.

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change... more This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.

Folia Linguistica Historica, 2021

Personal pronouns are among the most stable lexemes in the East Caucasian family, which consists ... more Personal pronouns are among the most stable lexemes in the East Caucasian family, which consists of at least forty different languages distributed over eight well established branches, with nevertheless important variations and paradigmatic reshaping across branches, languages, and even dialects. The 1st and 2nd singular pronouns have been replaced or changed shape at least once in many subparts of the family, and the main 1st person singular innovation was apparently followed by areal spread. Most languages retain two different pronouns for the 1st person plural European pronoun, but the cognates are not always clear, suggesting that although clusivity is an inherited feature of East Caucasian pronominal paradigms, its history is complex, with various types of loss and renewal. This paper attempts to draw a fine-grained and accurate picture of these 1st person plural pronouns and their history within the larger setting of personal pronouns in general. Most individual stories behind variation across branches, languages and dialects provide reasons to see inclusive pronouns as prone to be maintained or renewed over time, whereas exclusive pronouns (1st person singular or plural) are specially targeted by avoidance and replacement processes.

École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Livret-Annuaire

Essais de typologie et de linguistique générale: mélanges offerts à Denis Creissels, 2010

Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes Section Des Sciences Historiques Et Philologiques Livret Annuaire, 2006

An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, 2000

Linguistic Diversity in Azerbaijan: Present State and Future Challenges, 2023

Folia Linguistica Historica, 2021

École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Livret-Annuaire

Essais de typologie et de linguistique générale: mélanges offerts à Denis Creissels, 2010

Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes Section Des Sciences Historiques Et Philologiques Livret Annuaire, 2006

An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, 2000

Рутульские народные сказки, 2021

В первый сборник рутульского фольклора включены ру- тульские сказки, собранные С. Махмудовой Ж. О... more В первый сборник рутульского фольклора включены ру-
тульские сказки, собранные С. Махмудовой Ж. Отье и други-
ми в селах Рутульского района РД и Азербайджана. Тексты
сказок представляют особую ценность для носителей и иссле-
дователей рутульского языка, так как в них сохранились дух
народа, его культура, традиции, речевые формулы, сама картина мира и мировидение народа.

Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliograf... more Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar.

Tabasaran, along with Lezgian and Aghul, makes up the Eastern sub-branch of "Lezgic", a branch of... more Tabasaran, along with Lezgian and Aghul, makes up the Eastern sub-branch of "Lezgic", a branch of the East Caucasian language family (also known as Nakh-Daghestanian). In most Lezgic languages a perfective/imperfective aspectual opposition is marked on verb stems, and usually the formally marked category is the imperfective, which bears a sonorant (r, l, n) prefixed to the root. Other categories such as negation and gender/number agreement with the S/P argument are also commonly marked by prefixes to the root. Verbal roots being more often than not monoconsonantal, their number is limited, and the chief device used to derive new verbs is preverbation, which is found in all Lezgic languages. Preverbs are strictly bound and can be subdivided into two classes: locative preverbs, always found in first position, closely match existing locative case markers on NPs; second position preverbs, on the other hand, have less clear-cut meanings and their origin is not well understood. These derivational preverbs never interact with aspect in Lezgic languages, except in the southern dialects of Tabasaran, on the basis of which the recent literary tradition has developed.

Feminine ii-stem nouns; dual and plural forms of feminine i=-stem nouns; karmadhiiraya compound p... more Feminine ii-stem nouns; dual and plural forms of feminine i=-stem nouns; karmadhiiraya compound phrases Feminine u-stem nouns Feminine 1:.stem and u-stem nouns: dual and plural forms Karmadhiiyaya compound phrases XU xv xvii 20 20 20 21 vi Contents 50.4 mahii-'great' d hrases of more than two stems 50.5 Compoun P Vocabulary d 's story 2• The cowherd's wife and the barber's wife The wan erer , • Exercises 5 1 Non-a-stem verbs 51. l Review of non-a-stem verbs 51.2 Non-past forms of asti 51.3 51.4 51.5 51.6 51.7 51.8 Non-past and past forms of s,:Y}oti Non-past and past forms of priipnoti Non-past and past forms of karoti Examples of other non-a-stem verbs Second person singular imperative of non-a-stem verbs Other imperative forms of non-a-stem verbs 51.9 Progressive participles of non-a-stem verbs Vocabulary The lion-makers Exercises 52 Syllable mutation; masculine i-stem and u-stem nouns 52.1 Sandhi of initial r-52.2 52.3 52.4 52.5 52.6 Script: initial ,:-Syllable mutation Noun and adjective fonnation with v~ddhi Masculine i-stein and u-stem nouns ayam: dual and plural forms Vocabulary The sage and the mouse Exercises 53 Feminine i-stem and u-stem nouns; dvandva compound phrases 53.1 Feminine i-stem nouns 22 23 23 24 27 28 28 28 29 30 31 31 33 33 33 34 35 37 38 38 39 39 40 40 42 43 44 46 47 47 53.2 Feminine i-stem and u-stem nouns: inflection 53.3 u-stem adjectives 53.4 i-stem adjectives 53.5 Neuter u-stem nouns 53.6 Dvandva compound phrases Vocabulary The birds and the monkeys Exercises

English 1) One day Molla fell into the hands of a clumsy barber. 2) The barber slashed his head i... more English 1) One day Molla fell into the hands of a clumsy barber. 2) The barber slashed his head in various places and stuck cotton balls over it. 3) Suddenly Molla looks at himself in the mirror, and sees the cotton stuck on his head. 4) He rose to his feet, put his cap on his head and fled. 5) The barber said to him: "Molla, where are you going? 6) I haven't shaved the other half of your head yet!" 7) Molla said: "I'm still not going to plant my whole head in cotton!' 8) On the remaining half I will plant wool".

Grammaticheskij ocherk Avarskogo jazyka, 1967

Editorial board: Gilles Authier, Hélène Gérardin, Magomed I. Magomedov, Timur A. Maisak; Compiled by Timur A. Maisak. / Makhachkala: IYaLI DNC RAN, 2017. – 210 p., 2017

This book brings together the abstracts for the oral and poster presentations delivered at the in... more This book brings together the abstracts for the oral and poster presentations delivered at the international conference “Historical Linguistics of the Caucasus”, which took place at École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, April 12-14, 2017.
The presentations deal mainly with historical aspects of the Caucasian language families – Nakh-Daghestanian, Abkhaz-Adyghe, and Kartvelian – as well as the Indo-European languages of the region. A special thematic workshop within the conference was devoted to imperfectivity and its relation to modality, as part of the international project IMMOCAL – Imperfective Modalities in Caucasian Languages (project coordinator Gilles Authier).
For linguists, students of linguistics and philology and all those interested in the languages of the Caucasus.

Bochum: Brockmeyer, 2011. — 204 pp. (Diversitas Linguarum, 30), 2011

This collection of articles originated in a series of presentations given at the conference “Morp... more This collection of articles originated in a series of presentations given at the conference “Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages” held in December 2006 at the Collège de France (Paris).

new terminal tenses from go-periphrasis in Kryz

Derivazione passiva transitivo, IPF => 'to catch' yi-r-q-'to pull' yi-n-gh-'to yoke' ki-l-t'-pass... more Derivazione passiva transitivo, IPF => 'to catch' yi-r-q-'to pull' yi-n-gh-'to yoke' ki-l-t'-passivo IPF yi-r-q-ar-'to be caught' yi-n-gh-an-'to be pulled' ki-l-t'-al-'to be yoked'