22.570, Qs: Chechen: Descriptive Grammar

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Date: 27-Jan-2011
From: Katharina Schwabl [katharina.schwabl at edu.uni-graz.at]
Subject: Chechen: Descriptive Grammar
 

	
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:09:39
From: Katharina Schwabl [katharina.schwabl at edu.uni-graz.at]
Subject: Chechen: Descriptive Grammar

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Dear colleagues, 
 
I'm looking for a descriptive grammar of the Chechen language. It 
should be in English, German, or French since I'm not capable of 
reading in Russian. 

I'm working on a PhD-thesis on immigrants acquiring German as a 
second language. I didn't plan to include people with Chechen as an 
L1, because I'm not familiar with their first langauge. For practical 
reasons (there are a lot more Chechen people than I thought) I 
changed my mind. Now I'd like to have background information on the 
language they are starting from, the phonological system, 
morphological categories, and sentence structure. 

The only thing I've found and read so far is 

Dirr, Adolf: Einführung in das Studium der kaukasischen Sprachen. 
Zentralarchiv der DDR, 1978 (first puplished in 1928).

As you can see, this is really old and the chapter on the Chechen 
language is only a few pages. I've come acrosss the name of Johanna 
Nichols when looking for appropriate literature and would be interested 
in her contribution on Chechen in:

Smeets, Rieks (ed.): The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, Vol 
4, Part 2: The North East Caucasian Languages. New York: Caravan 
Books, 1994. 

But I wasn't sure if it's worth buying the book, someone might be able 
to give me feedback on this. 

Further I found this article:

Good, Jeff (2003): Clause combining in Chechen. Studies in Language 
27/1.

That's all I have for now. It's not a lot. I'd be glad if someone could give 
me advice. Do you have any suggestions for me?

Thank you all in advance,
Kathi Schwabl 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Chechen (che)




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