Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Foreword xix
5. Towards a Phonological Typology of Native Siberia 1
6. On the Syntax of Possessive Reflexive Pronouns in Modern Georgian and Certain Indo-European Languages 23
7. How Many Verb Classes Are There in Mingrelian? 29
8. More Pontic 41
9. The Bulgarians of Moldova and Their Language 61
10. Lak Folktales 75
11. Typology of Writing, Greek Alphabet, and the Origin of Alphabetic Scripts of the Christian Orient 85
12. The Case for Dialect Continua in Tungusic 97
13. Ingush Inflectional Verb Morphology 123
14. The Prehistory of Udi Locative Cases and Locative Preverbs 177
15. Vowels and Vowel Harmony in Namangan Tatar 193
16. The Nakh-Daghestanian Consonant Correspondences 207
17. Constraints on Reflexivization in Tsez 265
18. The Diachrony of Demonstrative Pronouns in East Caucasian 291
19. On Double Dative Constructions in Georgian 349
20. Kartvelian Series Markers 363
21. Tone and Phoneme in Ket 393
22. Index 419