31.927, Books: A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa: Forker

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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 20:51:51
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa: Forker

 


Title: A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa 
Series Title: Languages of the Caucasus  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://www.langsci-press.org/catalog/book/250 


Author: Diana Forker

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101962 Pages: 624 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

Sanzhi Dargwa belongs to the Dargwa (Dargi) languages (ISO dar; Glottocode
sanz1248) which form a subgroup of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Dagestanian)
language family. Sanzhi Dargwa is spoken by approximately 250 speakers and is
severely endangered. This book is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar
of Sanzhi, written from a typological perspective. It treats all major levels
of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax) and also information structure.
Sanzhi Dargwa is structurally similar to other East Caucasian languages, in
particular Dargwa languages. It has a relatively large consonant inventory
including pharyngeal and ejective consonants. Sanzhi morphology is
concatenative and mainly suffixing. The language exhibits a mixture of
dependent-marking in the form of a rich case inventory and head-marking in the
form of verbal agreement. Nouns are divided into three genders. Verbal
inflection conflates tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality in a rich array of
synthetic and analytic verb forms as well as participles, converbs, a masdar
(verbal noun), and infinitive and some other forms used in analytic tenses and
subordinate clauses. Salient traits of the grammar are two independently
operating agreement systems: gender/number agreement and person agreement.
Within the nominal domain, modifiers agree with the head nominal in
gender/number. Agreement within the clausal domain is mainly controlled by the
argument in the absolutive case. Person agreement operates only at the clausal
level and according to the person hierarchy 1, 2 > 3. Sanzhi has ergative
alignment in the form of gender/number agreement and ergative case marking.
The most frequent word order at the clause level is SOV, though all other
logically possible word orders are also attested. In subordinate clauses, word
order is almost exclusively head-final.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Dargwa (dar)


Written In: English  (eng)

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