Authier Gilles, Maisak Timur (eds.) Tense, mood, aspect and finiteness in East Caucasian languages

Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer: Bochum, 2011. — 204 pp.
This collection of articles originated in a series of presentations given at the conference “Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages” held in December 2006 at the Collège de France (Paris). It appeared to us that among the many interesting contributions offered at that conference, a number were set in a rich and mutually inspiring dialogue involving the application of the same concepts to a set of genetically related languages. This volume is thus an example of how typology can be employed within the domain of a single family of languages (cf. KIBRIK 1998), in this case the East Caucasian family. Two of the articles here deviate slightly from this stance, showing that areal and contact-induced features (NINA DOBRUSHINA) or even universal tendencies of language (ELENA KALININA) can interfere with a family-specific profile. But overall the reader will find much in common between the large number of languages on which the argument of each article is based.GILES AUTHIER & TIMUR MAISAK. Introduction
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MARINA CHUMAKINA. Morphological complexity of Archi verbs
TIMUR MAISAK. The Present and the Future within the Lezgic tense and aspect systems
GILLES AUTHIER. From adlocative case to debitive mood without insubordination
NINA DOBRUSHINA. The Optative domain in East Caucasian languages
NINA SUMBATOVA. Person hierarchies and the problem of person marker origin in Dargwa: facts and diachronic problems
ELENA KALININA. Exclamative clauses in the languages of the North Caucasus and the problem of finiteness