36.2017, Books: A Short Grammar of Georgian (2nd ed.): Makharoblidze (2024)

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Date: 29-Jun-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Short Grammar of Georgian (2nd ed.): Makharoblidze (2024)


Title: A Short Grammar of Georgian (2nd ed.)
Series Title: INCOM Studies in Caucasian Linguistics 16
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392034%22

Author(s): Tamar Makharoblidze

17x24 cm. ISBN 9783969392034. LINCOM Studies in Caucasian Linguistics
16.  2nd ed. 148pp. 74.20.

Abstract:

Georgian is the official language of Georgia. It’s the primary
language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself (about 83
percent of the population), and of another 500,000 abroad (chiefly in
Turkey, Iran, Russia, USA and Europe). It is the literary language for
all ethnographic groups of Georgian people, especially those who speak
other South Caucasian languages (or Kartvelian languages).
Georgian can be characterised as an agglutinative language. It shows
split ergativity, poly-personal verbal constructions and has a
subject-verb-object primary sentence structure.
A Short Grammar of Georgian starts with a presentation of the Georgian
writing system. The following chapters discuss nominal and verbal
morphology with a spe-cial focus on poly-personal verbal conjugation.
The data is presented in a very simple way so that one can learn the
general items of Georgian Grammar rather easily.
Besides the clear short description of Georgian grammar categories in
traditional terms the author exposes some original views of the most
complicated categories: such as version, personality, ergativity,
destination and class-category.
This second edition has been expanded by several examples of verbal
conjugation.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Georgian (kat)

Language Family(ies): Kartvelian

Written In: English (eng)



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