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Aorist, resultative and perfect in Shiri Dargwa and beyond

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 …

Tense and aspect in Ashti Dargwa [In Russian]

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 …