Schedule 73. StuTS

In this talk I will give a short introduction to the East-Caucasian language Khinalug.

The talk gives an introduction to sociolinguistics, phonology and the main aspects of the grammar. A special focus will be the case system in comparison to other East Caucasian languages.

Khinalug is an East-Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language, spoken in the Quba district in northern Azerbaijan by approximately 2500 people in the Village Khinalug.
The language is not directly endangered, but is under a strong Azerbaijani influence.

In this workshop we will look at the main aspects of Khinalug grammar with a focus on nominal morphology and especially the case system.

East-Caucasian languages are well known for their rich morphology and especially their large case systems, with a huge number of local cases. Khinalug differs from the typical case system of the language family and shows only a reduced set of local cases, namely essive, adessive, inessive, superessive elative and adelative. Also, the status of the inessive and superessive as productive cases is an ongoing research question.
We will also take a look at other phenomena of the nominal morphology like ergativity and noun classes and of course also discuss the most important aspects of verbal morphology, e.g. noun class agreement, light verbs and preverbs.

Info

Day: 2023-05-27
Start time: 13:35
Duration: 01:20
Room: SH 0.106
Track: Typology and Variational Linguistics

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