Theoretical Issues in the Languages of the Caucasus

This volume presents a collection of original articles on various morphosyntactic issues in the languages of the Caucasus with a focus on their theoretical implications. The articles not only present detailed descriptions of various structural aspects of the languages of the Caucasus but also provide in-depth analyses with respect to the recent theoretical debates. Given that the languages of the Caucasus present not only novel but also typologically exceptional data, the articles in the volume either offer new analyses of known linguistic puzzles or raise totally new questions based on novel data. Featuring articles on verb classes, case, ergativity, negation, evidentiality, auxiliary selection, agreement, word order, clefts, prosodic domains, and focus across Armenian, Avar, Georgian, Karachay-Balkar, Laz, Ossetic, Tsez, Tsova-Tush, West Circassian, the book serves a large audience ranging from typologists to theoretical linguists and linguists working in the domain of language contact, multilingualism, heritage linguistics, and endangered languages.