Nina R. Sumbatova

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nina R. Sumbatova is involved.

Sumbatova, Nina R. 2020 Copulas and information structure in Tanti Dargwa Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 105–140 | Chapter

The paper describes the basic types of independent clauses in the Tanti dialect of Dargwa (Nakh-Dagestanian (= East Caucasian), Russian Federation). Most independent clauses in Tanti are headed either by the identificational copula or a finite verb form. Less frequently, we meet sentences headed… read more

Sumbatova, Nina R. 2018 Chapter 9. My fieldwork, from Georgia to Guinea Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 123–137 | Chapter

Sumbatova, Nina R. 2000 Review of Kulikov & Vater (1998): Typology ofverbal categories: papers presented to Vladimir Nedjalkov on the occasion ofhis 70th birthday Studies in Language 24:2, pp. 453–462 | Review

Sumbatova, Nina R. 1999 Evidentiality, transitivity and split ergativity: evidence from Svan Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov, Abraham, Werner and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 63–96 | Article

Kulikov, Leonid and Nina R. Sumbatova 1993 Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look there Causatives and Transitivity, Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 327–342 | Article

Sumbatova, Nina R. 1993 Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role domination Causatives and Transitivity, Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Article