George Hewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Hewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Hewitt |
| SIGNATURE | HEWITT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7330-4107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Some Morpho-syntactic Challenges in Abkhaz and Georgian
The article begins by examining a type of question-formation that equates to the English ‘can it really be the case that X?’ and presents an analysis of the same. It then moves on to consider a particular usage by Abkhaz of its reflexive construction to build a structure that translates a dynamic passive in languages that have the kind of clearly differentiated diathetical opposition active: passive, which Abkhaz lacks. Consideration of one speci…
Edge of empires. A history of Georgia
In criticizing Ronald Suny (1989), Donald Rayfield offered his own template for structuring a history of Georgia. He thought it should begin (1990, 353) with the connections of the Georgians with a
History in the Context of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict
The 2014 disturbances in the Ukraine occasioned renewed discussion of the 2008 Russo- Georgian War. As the situation continued to worsen in eastern Ukraine, US President Obama announced on a visit to Poland at the start of June that the US and NATO would strengthen ties even with the non-NATO-member-states of the Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. This last has aspirations of membership, even though it does not control the republics of South Ossetia a…
Georgian
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
Languages of the Caucasus
The Caucasian isthmus, lying between the Black and Caspian seas at the interface of Europe and Asia, is one of the Earth's richest ethno‐linguistic regions. Some of the currently spoken languages arrived when outsiders immigrated during recorded history. But the majority, the indigenous languages of the Caucasus, belong to descendants of peoples the date of whose arrival is simply unknown – hence the name. Depending on one's analysis, the autocht…
Cases, arguments, verbs in Abkhaz, Georgian and Mingrelian
A number of apparently anomalous features in the marking of arguments are examined in three contiguous languages spoken in Transcaucasia: Abkhaz from the North West Caucasian family, and Georgian and Mingrelian, two South Caucasian (or Kartvelian) languages. Among the categories examined are those of potentiality, unwilling/accidental activity, causation, (in)transitivity, and non-standard case-assignment, as well as the much debated question of …
Conditional and Other Functions of Forms in /-(zα(.))r/ in Abkhaz
Protases ('if'-clauses) in the North West Caucasian language Abkhaz are mostly marked by either /-r/ or /-zα.r/, depending on the tense and/or type of verb (Stative or Dynamic) concerned. The article presents examples of this conditional usage and the role of protasis-type forms in both temporal and interrogative expressions as well as in complementiser-function. The complementisers in question share the semantic feature of irrealis with conditio…
Are Verbs Always What They Seem To Be
The North West Caucasian language-family is noted (notorious) for the polysynthetic nature of its verbs. If one couples this with fact (a) that morphemes typically take the shape C(V) and fact (b) that the language has a minimum of 58 consonantal phonemes (sc. in its literary dialect) and that homonymy is widespread, one might expect that, for ease of encoding/decoding, verb-forms would shew great regularity and structural transparency. On the wh…
The Syntax of Complementation in Abkhaz
Brill, Leiden, 2005 Iran and the Caucasus, 9.2 THE SYNTAX OF COMPLEMENTATION IN ABKHAZ GEORGE HEWITT University of London A. Vital Statistics Abkhaz belongs to the small North West Caucasian family, whose other two members are Circassian and Ubykh (extinct since 1992). Fewer than 100,000 Abkhazians are centred on the historical home- land of Abkhazia, a de facto independent state in northwest Transcau- casia since the war with Georgia in 1992-9…
North West Caucasian
In memoriam Helma Everdina van den Berg (1965–2003)
Convergence in language change
The paper examines two features of Mingrelian (a member of the Kartvelian, or South Caucasian, language family): (i) the marking of subordinate clauses by either clause‐final suffix ‐n(i)/‐i/ alone or this suffix + a full subordinating conjunction (or relative pronoun); (ii) the ‘Conditional’ forms in ‐k’o(n(i)) , which are peculiar within Kartvelian to Mingrelian and its close sister Laz. Influence exerted long ago by the North West Caucasian la…
Conflict in the Caucasus
Abkhazia, Georgia and the Circassians (NW Caucasus)
(1999). Abkhazia, Georgia and the Circassians (NW Caucasus) Central Asian Survey: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 463-499
Sir Harold Bailey 1899-1996
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Georgian
The Caucasus for its size can boast more languages than any other region on earth. Of the 40 or so native tongues Georgian is the most widely spoken (by up to 5 million, of whom 3 million are ethnic Georgians). With its own unique script, Georgian has been written since the 4th century and has a rich literature of all genres. Outside Georgia, however, it has remained virtually unknown and unstudied, its grammatical intricacies being discussed by …
Yet a third consideration of Völker, Sprachen und Kulturen des südlichen Kaukasus
Caucasian Perspectives
North West Caucasian
The Syntax of Complementation in Abkhaz
Brill, Leiden, 2005 Iran and the Caucasus, 9.2 THE SYNTAX OF COMPLEMENTATION IN ABKHAZ GEORGE HEWITT University of London A. Vital Statistics Abkhaz belongs to the small North West Caucasian family, whose other two members are Circassian and Ubykh (extinct since 1992). Fewer than 100,000 Abkhazians are centred on the historical home- land of Abkhazia, a de facto independent state in northwest Transcau- casia since the war with Georgia in 1992-9…
In memoriam Helma Everdina van den Berg (1965–2003)
Yet a third consideration of Völker, Sprachen und Kulturen des südlichen Kaukasus
Caucasian Perspectives
Georgian
The Caucasus for its size can boast more languages than any other region on earth. Of the 40 or so native tongues Georgian is the most widely spoken (by up to 5 million, of whom 3 million are ethnic Georgians). With its own unique script, Georgian has been written since the 4th century and has a rich literature of all genres. Outside Georgia, however, it has remained virtually unknown and unstudied, its grammatical intricacies being discussed by …
Yet a third consideration of Völker, Sprachen und Kulturen des südlichen Kaukasus
Sir Harold Bailey 1899-1996
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Abkhazia, Georgia and the Circassians (NW Caucasus)
(1999). Abkhazia, Georgia and the Circassians (NW Caucasus) Central Asian Survey: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 463-499
Convergence in language change
The paper examines two features of Mingrelian (a member of the Kartvelian, or South Caucasian, language family): (i) the marking of subordinate clauses by either clause‐final suffix ‐n(i)/‐i/ alone or this suffix + a full subordinating conjunction (or relative pronoun); (ii) the ‘Conditional’ forms in ‐k’o(n(i)) , which are peculiar within Kartvelian to Mingrelian and its close sister Laz. Influence exerted long ago by the North West Caucasian la…
Conflict in the Caucasus
In memoriam Helma Everdina van den Berg (1965–2003)
The Syntax of Complementation in Abkhaz
Brill, Leiden, 2005 Iran and the Caucasus, 9.2 THE SYNTAX OF COMPLEMENTATION IN ABKHAZ GEORGE HEWITT University of London A. Vital Statistics Abkhaz belongs to the small North West Caucasian family, whose other two members are Circassian and Ubykh (extinct since 1992). Fewer than 100,000 Abkhazians are centred on the historical home- land of Abkhazia, a de facto independent state in northwest Transcau- casia since the war with Georgia in 1992-9…
North West Caucasian
Cases, arguments, verbs in Abkhaz, Georgian and Mingrelian
A number of apparently anomalous features in the marking of arguments are examined in three contiguous languages spoken in Transcaucasia: Abkhaz from the North West Caucasian family, and Georgian and Mingrelian, two South Caucasian (or Kartvelian) languages. Among the categories examined are those of potentiality, unwilling/accidental activity, causation, (in)transitivity, and non-standard case-assignment, as well as the much debated question of …
Conditional and Other Functions of Forms in /-(zα(.))r/ in Abkhaz
Protases ('if'-clauses) in the North West Caucasian language Abkhaz are mostly marked by either /-r/ or /-zα.r/, depending on the tense and/or type of verb (Stative or Dynamic) concerned. The article presents examples of this conditional usage and the role of protasis-type forms in both temporal and interrogative expressions as well as in complementiser-function. The complementisers in question share the semantic feature of irrealis with conditio…
Are Verbs Always What They Seem To Be
The North West Caucasian language-family is noted (notorious) for the polysynthetic nature of its verbs. If one couples this with fact (a) that morphemes typically take the shape C(V) and fact (b) that the language has a minimum of 58 consonantal phonemes (sc. in its literary dialect) and that homonymy is widespread, one might expect that, for ease of encoding/decoding, verb-forms would shew great regularity and structural transparency. On the wh…
Languages of the Caucasus
The Caucasian isthmus, lying between the Black and Caspian seas at the interface of Europe and Asia, is one of the Earth's richest ethno‐linguistic regions. Some of the currently spoken languages arrived when outsiders immigrated during recorded history. But the majority, the indigenous languages of the Caucasus, belong to descendants of peoples the date of whose arrival is simply unknown – hence the name. Depending on one's analysis, the autocht…
Georgian
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
History in the Context of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict
The 2014 disturbances in the Ukraine occasioned renewed discussion of the 2008 Russo- Georgian War. As the situation continued to worsen in eastern Ukraine, US President Obama announced on a visit to Poland at the start of June that the US and NATO would strengthen ties even with the non-NATO-member-states of the Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. This last has aspirations of membership, even though it does not control the republics of South Ossetia a…
Some Morpho-syntactic Challenges in Abkhaz and Georgian
The article begins by examining a type of question-formation that equates to the English ‘can it really be the case that X?’ and presents an analysis of the same. It then moves on to consider a particular usage by Abkhaz of its reflexive construction to build a structure that translates a dynamic passive in languages that have the kind of clearly differentiated diathetical opposition active: passive, which Abkhaz lacks. Consideration of one speci…
Edge of empires. A history of Georgia
In criticizing Ronald Suny (1989), Donald Rayfield offered his own template for structuring a history of Georgia. He thought it should begin (1990, 353) with the connections of the Georgians with a
History (14 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Georgian (5 works)