LINGUIST List 29.1998

Wed May 09 2018

Books: The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages: Forker, Maisak (eds.)

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Date: 08-May-2018
From: Maarten Frieswijk <frieswijkbrill.com>
Subject: The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages: Forker, Maisak (eds.)
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Title: The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages
Subtitle: Tense, Aspect, Evidentiality, Mood and Modality
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Published: 2018
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/36022?format=HC&offer=359037

Editor: Diana Forker
Editor: Timur Maisak
Electronic: ISBN: 9789004361805 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 105
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004361782 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 116
Abstract:

The Caucasus is the place with the greatest linguistic variation in Europe. The present volume explores this variation within the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality systems in the languages of the North-East Caucasian (or Nakh-Daghestanian) family. The papers of the volume cover the most challenging and typologically interesting features such as aspect and the complicated interaction of aspectual oppositions expressed by stem allomorphy and inflectional paradigms, grammaticalized evidentiality and mirativity, and the semantics of rare verbal categories such as the deliberative (‘May I go?’), the noncurative (‘Let him go, I don’t care’), different types of habituals (gnomic, qualitative, non-generic), and perfective tenses (aorist, perfect, resultative). The book offers an overview of these features in order to gain a broader picture of the verbal semantics covering the whole North-East Caucasian family. At the same time it provides in-depth studies of the most fascinating phenomena.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                            Language Documentation
                            Semantics
                            Syntax
Language Family(ies): East Caucasian

Written In: English (eng)

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