Concord markers in linguistic theory, typology and in Khwarshi

Pavel Grashchenkov
Lomonosov Moscow State University / Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Abstract. The paper describes the phenomenon of concord in noun phrases in one of the small languages of Dagestan, Khwarshi. The paper discusses the approaches to analysis of nominal agreement from the point of view of linguistic theory and the typology of concord markers in natural languages. The main topic are markers of the indirect case -la and plurality -t'a in Khwarshi. As a result of the discussion, we come to the conclusion that both markers belong to a different type of morphemes compared to the “standard” class-number markers of nominal concord in the Dagestanian languages. We put forward the hypothesis about structural differences and possible ways of diachronic transformations of the markers under investigation.

Keywords: formal typology, Dagestanian languages, noun phrase, concord

For citation: Grashchenkov P. Concord markers in linguistic theory, typology and in Khwarshi. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2021. Vol. 4, iss. 1. Pp. 75–99. (In Rus.)