Issue 1, 2022

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This paper provides a survey of number agreement in the East Caucasian languages and languages of other language families in contact with East Caucasian. For a sample of 59 idioms I considered number agreement strategies of adjectives in the attributive position and established what factors license agreement in these idioms. Besides, I assessed the weight of genealogical and areal factors in the distribution of number agreement patterns across the East Caucasian languages. Although the genealogical factor was found to prevail, instances of features shared due to contact were also found, mainly between Avar and the contacting languages.

Key words: East Caucasian languages, number agreement, adjectives, intragenetic typology, language contact

DOI: 10.37892/2313-5816-2022-1-5-49

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The present article examines the marker guža (гужа) in Andi, a language of the Avar-Andic branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian family. This marker often co-occurs with finite verb forms, so one may think of analysing it as a verbal suffix that derives converbs from finite verbs. However, as I show with examples taken from Andi texts, guža functions as a more general adverbializer that produces adverbials from both clauses and constituents of various types, namely noun phrases, postpositional phrases and adverbs. Thus, guža is not a verbal suffix as such, but rather a syntactic marker which is placed in the rightmost element of a constituent or a clause.

Key words: Andi, Nakh-Daghestanian, converbs, adverbialization

DOI: 10.37892/2313-5816-2022-1-50-72

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In this paper, we undertake a study of the lexical semantics of verbs with the meaning ‘to pourʼ in one of the small Eastern Iranian languages of the Pamirs — Shughni, spoken in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province of Tajikistan. Data for the paper were extracted from the published dictionary of the Shughni language [Karamshoev 1988–1999], as well as field materials from 2021 (Khorugh) collected by the authors on the basis of a typological questionnaire. The work ends with the construction of a typological map based on the Shughni material.

Key words: lexical typology, to pour, Pamir languages, Shughni

DOI: 10.37892/2313-5816-2022-1-73-108

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The article presents a Yazghulami folk tale called “The goat and her kids”, recorded in the Yazghulami transcription refined by Joy Edelman in the 1950s based on the international transcription system for Iranian languages.

Along with the Yazghulami text the article includes a translation into Russian and interlinear glossing.

Key words: Pamir languages, Yazghulami, writing systems, alphabet, folk tale

DOI: 10.37892/2313-5816-2022-1-109-124

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The present article offers a brief comparison of issues encountered when translating the Bible and the Chronicles of Narnia into the Tuvan language of south Siberia. Many of the issues are similar, such as the need for developing a system of key terms, dealing with cultural mismatch between the source text and recipient language, and taking into account audience expectations. Some significant differences include the level of difficulty in understanding the meaning of the original text and the degree of freedom a translator has in translating sacred versus non-sacred text.

Key words: literary translation, Tuvan, domestication, Bible, Narnia, C. S. Lewis

DOI: 10.37892/2313-5816-2022-1-125-139