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Georgian Syntax: A Study in Relational Grammar (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

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Alice C. Harris, the author of "Georgian Syntax", is well known as a leading expert in the field of Georgian and Kartvelian linguistics.

Her book will appeal to linguists and linguistically interested laymen

alike. Her framework is relational grammar, but this is no obstacle, since her book is extremely readable and very valuable for linguists of all denominations, especially for typologists and students of linguistic universals.

Alice C. Harris writes about grammatical relations in Georgian. Penetrating the complexities of Georgian morphology, she reveals the

underlying syntactic generalizations. In her rather concise presentation

she deals with topics like version, passivization, inversion, and transitivity. She shows that Georgian has constructions such as Passive,

Object Raising, Causative Clause Union, and others found in better-known

languages. Georgian is not as different from Indoeuropean languages

as Western or Eastern Caucasian languages in its neighbourhood,

but it is still a challenge for linguists. Alice C. Harris succeeds in

providing a convincing linguistic analysis of some crucial Georgian data,

so many linguists may want to study her book. I truely recommend it.