Kartvelian languages Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Georgian language, Georgian grammar, Georgian alphabet, Mingrelian grammar, Laz grammar, Georgian verb paradigm, 1978 Georgian demonstrations, Svan language, Georgian dialects, Mingrelian language, Proto-Kartvelian language, Zan languages, Judaeo-Georgian, Adjarian dialect, Screeve, Georgian national system of romanization, Old Georgian language, Tinatini. Excerpt: The Georgian language belongs to the South Caucasian or Kartvelian family. Some of its characteristics are akin to those of Slavic languages such as its system of verbal aspect, but Georgian grammar is remarkably different from Indo-European languages and has many distinct features, such as split ergativity and a polypersonal verb agreement system. Georgian has its own alphabet. In this article, a transliteration with Latin letters will be used throughout. Georgian syntax and verb agreement are largely those of a nominative-accusative language. That is, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are treated alike when it comes to word order within the sentence and their agreement marks in the verb complex. Nominative-accusative alignment is the most common in the world's languages, and is found in all Western Indo-European languages (such as English, German, and French). However, Georgian case morphology (that is, the declension of nouns using case marks) does not always coincide with verbal alignment. Georgian has often been said to exhibit split ergativity; morphologically speaking, it is said that it mostly behaves like an ergative-absolutive language in the Series II ('aorist') screeves. That means that the subject of an intransitive verb will take the same case markings as the direct object of a transitive verb. However, this is not a fully accurate representation. This is because Georgian has yet another level of split ergativity. In the aorist series, intransitive verbs behave differently. Second conjugation v [...] Autor: Source: Wikipedia Wydawnictwo: Books LLC, Reference Series Rok wydania: 2020 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 28 Wymiary: 24.6 x 18.9 x 0.5 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781157668299