A syntax of the Nivkh language : the Amur dialect / Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, Galina A. Otaina ; translated from Russian by Emma Š. Geniušienė ; edited by Emma Š. Geniušienė, Ekaterina Gruzdeva.

This publication is a translation from Russian of the Syntaksis nivxskogo jazyka (Syntax of the Nivkh Language) Amurskij dialekt (The Amur dialect).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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A Syntax of the Nivkh Language; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Pictures of the authors ; Table of contents; Foreword; Foreword; Abbreviations; Introductory notes; 1.1 Grammatical markers. Word classes; 1.2 Syntax; 1.3 Morphology of the verb; 1.4 Morphology of the noun; 1.5 Phonetics; 1.6 Morphonology; Bound and free complexes; Free and bound word variants; Morphological and syntactic complexes. Attributive and object complexes; Extended morphological complexes; Personal and reflexive pronouns; Basic rules of alternation of plosives and fricatives; Special types of alternations.

8.1 Devoicing of class B1 consonants into class A1 after voiceless consonants8.2 Devoicing of class B1 consonants into class A1 before voiceless consonants; 8.3 Voicing of class A1 consonants before vowels or sonorants; 8.4 Vowel drop in three pronouns in direct object and attribute positions; 8.5 Unclear cases; The problem of incorporation; The direct object + verb complex. Alternation of initial consonants in transitives; 10.1 Two-member variants: Voiceless fricative voiceless aspirated plosive; 10.2 Three-member variants: Voiced fricative voiceless unaspirated plosive or voiced plosive.

10.3 Variants with the initial components j-/i-/e- (over 140 transitives)10.3.1 Two-member variants: J-/i-/e- alternate with Ø or -h-; 10.3.2 Two-member variants with consonant alternation; 10.3.3 Three-member variants with consonant alternation; 10.3.4 Four-member variants with consonant alternation; 10.3.5 Individual variants; 10.4 Transitives with the initial consonant v-; 10.5 Exceptions; 10.6 Verbs with the component hur-; The attribute + noun complex. Alternation of initial consonants of nouns and verbs in attributive position; 11.1 Pronouns and nouns used as attributes.

11.2 Intransitive verbs of action used as attributes11.3 Qualitative verbs used as attributes; 11.4 Transitive verbs used as attributes; 11.4.1 The head word of an attributive complex is a subject; 11.4.2 The head word of an attributive complex is an object; 11.4.2.1 A transitive verb changes its initial consonant; 11.4.2.2 A transitive verb does not change its initial consonant; 11.5 The head word corresponds to an oblique object or an adverbial; The verbal finite predicate; The nominal predicate; Converbs; 14.1 Converbs marked for subject agreement; 14.1.1 The converb in -r, -t.

14.1.2 The converb in -ror, -tot 14.1.3 The converb in -ra, -ta; 14.2 Same-subject, different-subject and variable-subject converbs; 14.3 Converbs marked for tense; 14.4 Converbs expressing purely temporal (taxis) relations and converbs with other meanings; 14.4.1 Converbs expressing purely temporal relations; 14.4.2 Converbs expressing non-temporal relations; 14.5 Syntactic relations of converbs; Coordination of homogeneous predicates; 15.1 The finite verb form as a homogeneous predicate; 15.2 The converb in -r, -t (see 14.1.1); 15.3 The converb in -ra, -ta (see 14.1.3); The noun.

This volume, originally published in Russian in 2012, is one of the few larger works on Nivkh (Gilyak), an underinvestigated endangered Paleosiberian language-isolate, that have appeared lately. It is a descriptive grammar based on extensive language data and supplemented with the authors' experiments and subtle analysis, aimed at elucidating some moot points of the highly specific Nivkh syntax, and with quantitave data. It focuses on syntactic and semantic types of verbs and their aspectual and temporal characteristics, various groups of verbal grammatical morphemes, the use of finite and non.

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