North West Caucasian

Lingua

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 91-145

  Hewitt, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abaza; Abkhaz; Adyghe; Antipassive; Circassian; Consonant inventory; Definiteness; Hattic; Inalienable possession; Kabardian; Labio dentalisation; Language contact; Language endangerment; Locational preverbs; Orientational preverbs; Pan North Caucasian hypothesis; Pharyngalisation; Polysynthetic verval complex; Relative raising; Roman alphabet; Stress; Ubykh; Vigesimal; Vowel systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644344346     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2003.06.003     Document Type: Article

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