enaTmecnierebis sakiTxebi ISSUES OF LINGUISTICS - Tbilisi State ...

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cesebis dafiqsireba da aucilebelia am kategoriebs Soris ierarqiuli mimarTebebis dadgena. ierarqiebi avlenen enobrivi sistemis funqcionirebis ganmsazRvrel mniSvnelovan faqtorebs. literatura asaTiani 1994 : r. asaTiani, qarTvelur enaTa tipologiis sakiTxebi, `mecniereba~, Tbilisi. bretveiti 1973 : K. Braithweithe, Case Shift and Verb Concord in Georgian. PhD thesis. Department of Linguistics, the University of Texas at Austin. gagua 1953 : r. gagua, zmnis cvla gramatikuli klas-kategoriis niSnis mixedviT bacbur enaSi, ike VIII. diqsoni 1994 : R. M. W. Dixon, Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. kibriki 1997 : Beyond Subject and Object: Toward a Comprehensive Relational Typology. LinguisticTypology 1, Berlin-New Jork: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, p. 279-346. maWavariani, SavxeliSvili 1998 : m. maWavariani da b. SavxeliSvili, ergatiuloba da bunebiTi (pirveladi) zmnebi wova-TuSurSi, `gza enisaken~, Tbilisi. rogava 1953 : g. rogava, klasiani uRvlilebis pirian uRvlilebaSi gadasvla iberiul-kavkasiur enebSi, moambe-XIV, 7, `mecniereba~, Tbilisi. SaniZe 1973 : a. SaniZe, qarTuli enis gramatikis safuZvlebi, `mecniereba~, Tbilisi. WrelaSvili 2002 : k. WrelaSvili, wova-TuSuri ena, Tsu gam-ba, Tbilisi. holiski 1987 : D. A. Holisky, The Case of the Intransitive Subject in Tsova-tush (Batsbi). Lingua, 71, 103-132. Rusudan Asatiani Dominant Category of Language and the Peculiarities of Ergative Constructions in Tsova-tush and Georgian Summary Georgian, according to the general typology, is defined as a mixed language, more precisely, as a role-deixis-oriented language, but the same qualification would apply to Batsbi (or Tsova-tush, the designation now preferably used by native speakers). According to the suggested theoretical approach for a comprehensive description of languages, it is not enough to define languages as merely mixed systems, but also state which hierarchies they make use of. The hierarchies are defined according to the priority given to marked categories during linguistic realizations: they reflect dynamic synchronic and/or diachronic processes of linguistic structuring. 318

Although Tsova-tush is similar to Georgian in one respect (both can be qualified as role-deixis-oriented languages), it also differs from Georgian in a significant way: it seems that due to the contacts with the Georgian language, Tsova-tush distinguishes the I/II versus III dichotomy, although its formalization takes place only after the grammaticalization of the class category which is basic for the prototypical ergative constructions. That is, it keeps the original category as the stronger one and puts it on a higher position in the hierarchy. We suppose that hierarchies can give us a new understanding of the nature of linguistic changes in the situation of language interferences: when new categories or structures rise in languages because of contacts (or because of internally motivated variations), the old ones do not disappear, on the contrary, they occupy a high position in a hierarchically organized linguistic system of grammatical categories. 319

Although Tsova-tush is similar to Georgian in one respect (both can be qualified as<br />

role-deixis-oriented languages), it also differs from Georgian in a significant way:<br />

it seems that due to the contacts with the Georgian language, Tsova-tush<br />

distinguishes the I/II versus III dichotomy, although its formalization takes place<br />

only after the grammaticalization of the class category which is basic for the<br />

prototypical ergative constructions. That is, it keeps the original category as the<br />

stronger one and puts it on a higher position in the hierarchy.<br />

We suppose that hierarchies can give us a new understanding of the nature of<br />

linguistic changes in the situation of language interferences: when new categories<br />

or structures rise in languages because of contacts (or because of internally<br />

motivated variations), the old ones do not disappear, on the contrary, they occupy a<br />

high position in a hierarchically organized linguistic system of grammatical<br />

categories.<br />

319

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