Aronson Howard I. (Ed.). Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics

Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, 1994. — 368 p.Most of the papers in this volume were originally presented in abbreviated and, often, in preliminary form at the Seventh International Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR, held at the University of Chicago in May 1991. This was the last of our biennial conferences to be held in the lifetime of the late Soviet Union. Now the languages that we deal with belong to fifteen newly independent republics. Yet the influence that Russian exerted over them will continue to be felt in the near future. And many of these languages are little known and little studied outside of the homelands. It is our hope that these volumes will continue to provide a home for the study of languages that otherwise would not have a home and to provide a venue for studies that deal with the various languages of the area in their interrelations.Aronson, Howard I. - "Indirect objects" and datives in Georgian
Colarusso, John - Microcosmos: the Circassian verb
Comrie, Bernard - An evaluation of Chukchee orthography
Dyer, Donald L. - Russian and Romanian intertwined: the legacy that is Moldavian
Friedman, Victor - Gain Lak and the 3 "there's."
Harlig, Jeffrey - The status and maintenance of the Mordvinian languages
Harris, Alice C. - Ergative-to-nominative shift in agreement: Tabassaran
Jacobs, Neil G. - On a structural 'fifth column' in sociolinguistic change: the diffusion of a standard Yiddish feature in Yiddish dialects
King, J. R. P. - Dialect features in Soviet Korean publications from the 1920s
Lallukka, Seppo - The status of the Volga-Finnic languages in the Soviet general education school
Manning, H. Paul - Split locativity in Old Georgian and Svan
Polinsky, Maria S. - Relativization in Chuckchee
Pugh, Stefan - The assimilation of Russian verbal lexicon in Moksa Mordvinian
Rounds, Carol - The role of the zero accusative in Komi folk tales
Schwink, Frederick W. - On the lexicalization of Classical Armenian vowel epenthesis
Testen, David - A feminine/diminutive suffix in early Ossetian
Tuite, Kevin - Aorist and pseudo-aorist for Svan atelic verbs
Verschik, Anna - Code-switching and the Estonians of Narva
Vovin, Alexander - On accent in Chuvash