Troisième séminaire de Peter Arkadiev Université Johannes-Gutenberg (Mayence - Allemagne) dans le cadre de sa lecture "Problems of polysynthesis, with special reference to the Northwest Caucasian languages".

Enregistré le 23 mai 2023.

Résumé :

In seminar 3 I shall offer a more detailed discussion of the grammatical structures of the Northwest Caucasian languages (cf. Arkadiev & Lander 2020) with reference to the properties associated with polysynthesis. These languages are characterised by a high degree of morphological complexity in both verbs and nominals, extreme polypersonalism coupled with a rich system of valency-increasing devices, and a large number of affixes expressing spatial, aspectual, modal and evaluative meanings. It will be shown that the Northwest Caucasian polysynthetic verbal morphology cannot be unequivocally characterised as either scope-based or templatic, nor as purely affixal despite the absence of productive incorporation.


Retrouvez les slides de la lecture sur le site du Labex EFL :
https://www.labex-efl.fr/post/....chaire-international