East Caucasian coordination

October 26, 2018

This talk discusses East Caucasian coordination strategies from the viewpoint of recent decompositional approaches to “logical” vocabulary (words like and, or, not etc.) as pursued by Mitrović (2014). Focusing on the predictions of that analysis concerning the unavoidability of exclusivity inferences in the case of reduplicated pairs of μ- and κ-particles, I identify a disjunction strategy in Avar that casts doubt on the universality of the analysis and suggest possible workarounds.

The handout is available here.

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I’m Pavel Rudnev, and this is my personal website. I’m a research fellow and lecturer in linguistics at HSE University in Moscow. My main area of interest is syntax and its interfaces with sound and meaning. In particular, my current research revolves around the structure of nominal expressions, agreement, case and verbal morphosyntax in East Caucasian languages, and the syntax-to-phonology mapping in Russian Sign Language.

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