Nanomorphosyntax of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages and Its Leading Elements in Diachrony

Ts. Baramidze

2022

Abstract

The article deals with the relationship between the main categories of nanomorphosyntax of the Iberian-Caucasian languages (lability, grammatical class, ergativity). The relationship of these categories should be studied as elements of nanosyntax. The formation of a complex syntactic system of the Iberian-Caucasian languages is associated with the specifics of the verb of these languages. Verbal categories are included in the syntactic constructions of the Iberian-Caucasian languages; therefore, the syntax of these languages should be considered as morphosyntax. The significator of an ergative construction in a verb is the recipient marker (R). The recipient marker (R) is a small element, an “atom” of the nanomorphosyntax of the Iberian-Caucasian languages, which preserves the ancient conjugation model. From a nanosyntactic point of view, I consider the recipient - R (direct object) to be the key and leading actant, as well as the smallest element of this actant - a marker of the ergative construction in the Iberian-Caucasian languages. I note that the recipient valence, its form-content originality forms a set of distinctive features of the Iberian-Caucasian languages from other language families, including those languages that have ergative and ergative constructions, but do not have a grammatical class, lability and, most importantly, priority of recipient marker valency (R) in a transitive verb.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Baramidze T. (2022). Nanomorphosyntax of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages and Its Leading Elements in Diachrony. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Actual Issues of Linguistics, Linguodidactics and Intercultural Communication - Volume 1: TLLIC; ISBN 978-989-758-655-2, SciTePress, pages 77-83. DOI: 10.5220/0011602700003577

in Bibtex Style

@conference{tllic22,
author={Ts. Baramidze},
title={Nanomorphosyntax of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages and Its Leading Elements in Diachrony},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Actual Issues of Linguistics, Linguodidactics and Intercultural Communication - Volume 1: TLLIC},
year={2022},
pages={77-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011602700003577},
isbn={978-989-758-655-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Actual Issues of Linguistics, Linguodidactics and Intercultural Communication - Volume 1: TLLIC
TI - Nanomorphosyntax of the Iberian-Caucasian Languages and Its Leading Elements in Diachrony
SN - 978-989-758-655-2
AU - Baramidze T.
PY - 2022
SP - 77
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0011602700003577
PB - SciTePress