Armenian and Eastern Caucasian languages

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Department Website: http://nelc.uchicago.edu Program of Study Majors in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) at the University of Chicago pursue rigorous knowledge about a region of the world that is known as “the cradle of civilization” and the home of several important religious and cultural traditions, as well as one of the most important geopolitical areas of our contemporary wor...

Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia Linguistic parameters of language endangerment1

Attention! This is a special internet edition of the article " Endangered Caucasian Languages in Georgia " by Jost Gippert (2005). It should not be quoted as such. For quotations, please refer to the original edition printed in " Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages " , ed.

The emergence of case semantics in some East Caucasian languages

The case system of most autochthonous East Caucasian languages is marked for a complex system of local case forms that are opposed to a rather restricted set of relational or derivational cases. (1) illustrates the basic paradigmatic make-up of such a system with the help of data from Aghul, an Eastern Samur language of the Lezgian branch (spoken by roughly 8.000 people along the upper regions ...

The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe

1. Purpose and scope 2. General survey methodology 3. Qualitative information 3.1 Eastern Europe 3.2 Bulgaria 3.3 Czech Republic 3.4 Estonia 3.5 Hungary 3.6 Latvia 3.7 Lithuania 3.8 Moldova 3.9 Poland 3.10 Romania 3.11 Russia 3.12 Slovakia 3.13 Ukraine 3.14 Republics and provinces of the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Voivodi...

Voice and Being Core: Evidence from (Eastern) Indonesian Languages