Georgian: A structural reference grammarThe Caucasus for its size can boast more languages than any other region on earth. Of the 40 or so native tongues Georgian is the most widely spoken (by up to 5 million, of whom 3 million are ethnic Georgians). With its own unique script, Georgian has been written since the 4th century and has a rich literature of all genres. Outside Georgia, however, it has remained virtually unknown and unstudied, its grammatical intricacies being discussed by a small but ever growing succession of foreign specialists. The present work represents the first Reference Grammar of this challenging language to appear in English and is the summation of 20 years of intensive study by its author. |
Contents
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Verbal Morphology | 117 |
Syntax | 523 |
Texts | 637 |
Sample Vocabularies in Semantic Fields | 685 |
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Common terms and phrases
1st person 2nd person 3rd person plural 3rd person singular Active Participle adjective Adverbial agreement-affix Aorist Indicative Aorist Subjunctive bipersonal brma circumfix conjugation copula Dative direct eb-i ERGATIVE ert-i example expression formation Future Indicative Future Participle Future Sub-Series Genitive Georgian language give IIIrd Subjunctive illustrated Imperfect Indicative indirect object Indirect Verb Instrumental Intransitive kal-i KEGL killed labio-dental language Locative Version marker markerless Masdar meaning Mingrelian Modern Georgian monopersonal my-AGR Neutral Version normal noun Objective Version Old Georgian paradigm particle Past Participle pattern person singular subject Pluperfect postposition prefixal Present Indicative Present Sub-Series Present Subjunctive preverb Privative Participle pronoun quotes Root Verbs screeves Šen Series Shanidze shew stand Stative syncopating synonym tav-i tav-s Tbilisi Thematic Suffix eb Transitive Verb tvis variable arguments variant verb-form verbal versioniser VOCATIVE Werb whilst X/them to Y/them XDAT you(Pl your-AGR