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A Short Grammar of East Circassian (Kabardian)

By Ranko Matasovic

Book information

Publisher
Zagreb
Year
2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1667120 bytes)
Pages
139\139
Library
uz-translations.su
Time added
2012-01-24 09:25:59

Description

This grammar should be used with some caution, not only because it was written by a linguist who is far from being a fluent speaker of Kabardian. It is largely compilatory in nature, and many examples were drawn from the existing works on Kabardian by M. L. Abitov, Mukhadin Kumakhov, and others. However, I have also excerpted and analyzed many sentences from the literature, especially from the Nart corpus (Nārtxar, 1951, Nārtxar, 2001), and some examples were elicited from native speakers. Although I have relied heavily on the published scholarly works on Kabardian, my interpretations of the data are sometimes very different from those in the available literature. I have tried to approach the Kabardian language from a typological point of view, comparing its linguistic features, that may appear strange to speakers of Indo-European languages, to similar features found in other languages of the world.

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