Holisky Dee Ann, Tuite Kevin (Eds.). Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. — 455 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 246).This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. Some authors utilize their field data to address problems of general linguistic interest, such as reflexivization. A number of papers look at the evidence for contact-induced change in multilingual areas. Some of the most exciting contributions to the collection represent significant advances in the reconstruction of the prehistory of such understudied language families as Northeast Caucasian, Tungusic and the baffling isolate Ket. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in the indigenous languages of the former USSR, but also to historical and synchronic linguists seeking to familiarize themselves with the fascinating, typologically diverse languages from the interior of the Eurasian continent.
Dee Ann Holisky is Professor of English and Linguistics, and Associate Dean for Academic Programs of the College of Arts & Sciences at George Mason University. She is the author of Aspect and Georgian Medial Verbs (Caravan Books, 1981) and of numerous articles on Georgian and Kartvelian linguistics. Kevin Tuite is Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Among his books are An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and Ethnolinguistics and Anthropological Theory (co-edited with Christine Jourdan; Montréal: Éditions Fides, 2003).Towards a Phonological Typology of Native Siberia - Gregory D.S. Anderson
On the Syntax of Possessive Reflexive Pronouns in Modern Georgian and Certain Indo-European Languages - Shukia Apridonidze
How Many Verb Classes Are There in Mingrelian? - Marcello Cherchi
More Pontic: Further Etymologies Between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian - John Colarusso
The Bulgarians of Moldova and Their Language - Donald Dyer
Lak Folktales: Materials for a Bilingual Reader: Part Two - Victor A. Friedman
Typology of Writing, Greek Alphabet, and the Origin of Alphabetic Scripts of the Christian Orient - Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
The Case for Dialect Continua in Tungusic: Plural Morphology - Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley
Ingush Inflectional Verb Morphology: A Synchronic Classification and Historical Analysis with Comparison to Chechen - Zev Handel
The Prehistory of Udi Locative Cases and Locative Preverbs - Alice C. Harris
Vowels and Vowel Harmony in Namangan Tatar - K. David Harrison and Abigail R. Kaun
The Nakh-Daghestanian Consonant Correspondences - Johanna Nichols
Constraints on Reflexivization in Tsez - Maria Polinsky and Bernard Comrie
The Diachrony of Demonstrative Pronouns in East Caucasian - Wolfgang Schulze
On Double Dative Constructions in Georgian - Kora Singer
Kartvelian Series Markers - Kevin Tuite
Tone and Phoneme in Ket - Edward J. Vajda