A grammatical description

Author:

Wolfgang Schulze ©

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 Frequency List of Udi Phonemes

EXCURSUS II:
Some basic typological features 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 identifier for Udi
2. Linguistic categories and 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

4.10 The 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)