The first, and larger, part of the volume (all the papers from Aronson's through Tuite's) are homage to the great Georgian scholar, Akaki Shanidze (1887-1987). The remainder of the papers cover a variety of topics. We would particularly call your attention to the papers of Catford and Colarusso, which have great theoretical and typological significance.
Contents:
Howard I. Aronson: Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Subject in Georgian;
Roland Bielmeier: On Iranian Influence in Old Georgian;
J. C. Catford: Vowel Systems of Caucasian Languages;
John Colarusso: How to Describe the Sounds of the Northwest Caucasian Languages;
Victor Friedman: Assertive Verb Forms in Lak;
Zbigniew Gob: Prehistoric Contacts between Ossetic and Slavic;
Alice C. Harris: On the History of Relative Clauses in Georgian;
Dee Ann Holisky: Notes on Auxiliary Verbs in Tsova-Tush (Batsbi);
Johanna Nichols: The Structure of the Nakh-Daghestanian Verb Root and Verb Stem;
Alfred G. Paludis: The Subjunctive in Classical Armenian: Significant Differences between Eznik and Eishò;
K. H. Schmidt: Class Inflection and Related Categories in the Caucasus;
Wolfgang Schulze-Fuerhoff: Tracing Aspect Coding Techniques in the Lezgian languages;
David Testen: The Correspondence: Scythian Bastakaw = Ossetian basta;
Kevin Tuite: Syntactic Subject in Georgian;
Robert Austerlitz: Gilyak Internal Reconstruction, 3: Ligneous Matter;
Donald L. Dyer: Moldavian Linguistic Realities;
Rachel Lehr: Complex Infinitives and Other Deverbal Nominals in Tajik;
Jules Levin: Stressing Freely in Lithuanian and Russian;
Roy Andrew Miller: The Original Geographic Distribution of the Tungus Languages;
Stefan Pugh: Observations on the Russian Component in Karelian;
Steven Young: The Scope of Saussure's Law in Colloquial Lithuanian.
"This is an excellent collection;..." (SEER)
"The volume includes a number of major contributions to our understanding of the structure and history of the languages of the former USSR..." (SEEJ)
