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Date: 23-May-2011
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A Grammar of Ubykh: Fenwick

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From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A Grammar of Ubykh: Fenwick

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Title: A Grammar of Ubykh 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Caucasian Linguistics 19  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu 

Author: Rohan S.H. Fenwick

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862880508 Pages: 225 Price: Europe EURO 124

Abstract:

Ubykh is one of the languages comprising the small North-West Caucasian 
(Abkhazo-Adyghean) language family. It is SOV, ergative, postpositional, 
head-marking, and massively agglutinative. First attested in around 1650 in 
the Seyâhatnâme of Evliya Çelebi, it was originally spoken in the region 
surrounding the modern Russian city of Sochi, then in exile in north-western 
Turkey after the 19th-century invasion of the northern Caucasus by the 
Russian Empire and subsequent emigration en masse of the Ubykh nation. 
Since the death in 1992 of Ubykh's last competent native speaker, Tevfik 
Esenç, the language has been functionally extinct.

Ubykh already has considerable linguistic renown for its titanic inventory of 
consonant phonemes (comprising at least 80 segments in the only well-
attested dialect), but it also demonstrates great complexity in morphology 
and syntax. This sketch takes a heavily descriptive approach, outlining not 
only Ubykh's complex phonology and phonetics, but also its inflectional and 
derivational morphology - including the most comprehensive account to date 
of Ubykh noun morphology - and syntax, with particular focus on describing 
attested idiolectic and dialectic variation. The sketch is liberally illustrated 
with examples drawn mainly from 14 identified speakers, and is based upon 
both the published corpus and previously unpublished field recordings; many 
of the example sentences and one of the sample texts are published here for 
the first time. It is hoped that this sketch, the first Ubykh grammar in English, 
will stimulate renewed interest in the language and provide a useful reference 
for Caucasological researchers. 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Syntax
                     Typology
                     Caucasian
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Ubykh (uby)

Written In: English  (eng)

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