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The Udi Language:

A grammatical description

with sample text

 

Author:

Wolfgang Schulze©

Date: 01/2001

 

 

 

Contents:


Overview:

Prolegomenon
General information

Phonetics/phonology
Morphology
Morphosyntax and Syntax
Lexicon
Sample texts


Excursus:
Frequency of phonemes
Typological features
Morpheme identifier

 

 

Prolegomenon

 

Sample of spoken Udi   (Audio files; link to the Titus-Server, U Frankfurt)

 


1. The Udi language

1.1 Location and demographic data

1.2 Genetic affiliation

1.3 Contact Linguistics of Udi

1.4 Udi and the problem of Caucasian Albania (Alwan)

 

2. Phononological system

2.1 Vowels

2.2 Consonants

2.3 Phonotactics

2.4 Major phonetic processes

2.5 Stress

 
EXCURSUS I:

A FrequencyList of Udi Phonemes


EXCURSUS II:
Some basic typologicalfeatures of  Udi

 

3. Morphology

3.1 The general make-up of Udi morphology

3.1.1 Head and Dependent Marking

3.1.2 Agglutination and fusional features

3.1.3 Prefixing - Proclitization

3.1.4 Infixing - Endoclitization

3.1.5 Suffxing - Enclitization


EXCURSUS III:
1. A morpheme identifierfor Udi
2. Linguistic categoriesand categorial elements that are reflected in Udi morphology

3.2 The referential center: Nouns and Pronouns

3.2.1 Nouns

3.2.1.1 Number

3.2.1.2 Cases

3.2.1.3 Attributive qualification

3.2.1.4 Possession

3.2.1.5 Further localization strategies: Postpositions

3.2.1.6 Inflection of nominalized structures

3.2.2 Pronouns

3.2.2.1 Speech act participants

3.2.2.2 The 'third' person: Deixis

3.2.2.3 Reflexive pronoun

3.2.2.4 Interrogative pronouns

3.2.2.5 Relative pronouns

 

3.2.3 Numerals

 

3.3 The relational center: Verbs

3.3.1 Masdar and infinitive

3.3.2 Tense, aspect, mood

3.3.3 Verbal actancy: Personal agreement

3.3.4 Participles, and converbs

3.3.5 Localizing the center: Preverbs

3.3.6 Negation

3.3.7 Modality

3.3.8 Copula

 

4. Morphosyntax and syntax of Udi

4.1 Basic aspects of relational behavior

4.2 Preferred word order

4.3 The morphology of relational behavior

4.4 Splitphenomena:

4.4.1 The Silverstein Hierarchy in Udi

4.4.2 Fluid-S and S-Split

4.4.3A-Splits

4.4.4 Fluid-O

4.4.5 The IO-domain

4.5 Grounding and passives

4.6 Causatives

4.7 Reflexivity

4.8 Coordination

4.9 Subordination

4.10 Referential tracking
4.11The pragmatics of Udi morphosyntax: Topic and focus

 

5. The make-up of the Udi lexicon

5.1 General remarks

5.2. A lexical analysis of the sample text


6. Sample texts:

6.1  Yesiraq'i Pasc^’ag/: Sample text with interlinear glosses and translation  

6.2 Poetic style (2 poems)


7. Bibliography