In this paper, I describe the system of core perfective past-tense forms of Shiri Dargwa (East Caucasian). This is one of the few languages where an evidential resultative coexists with a *bona fide* perfect paradigm. This fact is curious within the …
Much of the current debate on the syntax of Dargwa is centered around the problem of gender agreement on auxiliaries. This type of agreement is exceptional in that it is not exclusively controlled by the absolutive argument, but can be alternatively …
Dargwa languages possess two types of agreement: based on gender and on person. Gender agreement is controlled by the absolutive (S/P) argument of the clause, while the controller of person agreement is selected from among the core arguments (A, S, …
The rules of person agreement in Dargwa (East Caucasian) are quite complex and are based on the relative positions of core arguments on the person hierarchy and the grammatical relations hierarchy. These rules also vary across languages of the group. …
Dargwa languages have two types of agreement at clause level: gender and person agreement. In the general case, person agreement is hierarchical (speech act participants prefered to 3rd persons), while gender agreement is with the absolutive (S/P) …
In this article I discuss a verbal category in the Ashti dialect of Kubachi Dargwa (Nakh-Daghestanian) which is expressed by so-called “thematic” markers in 1st and 2nd person forms of certain peripheral verbal paradigms. In other varieties of …
The rules of person agreement in languages of the Dargwa group (North-East Caucasian) are complex and based on the relative prominence of the core arguments on the personal and grammatical function hierarchies. The rules are also subject to much …
The paper addresses the morphology and semantics of key aspectual-temporal forms in the Ashti dialect of Kubachi (Dargi group of Nakh-Daghestanian languages). The tense and aspect system of this dialect is typologically remarkable because of the …
The paper analyzes the fundamental syntactic opposition between coordination and subordination against the material of converb clauses in three Dargi dialects: Icari, Qunqi and Ashti. As a result of this research, variance of some converbs with …