Kusikyan, I. K. Essays on the Historical Syntax of the Literary Armenian Language (Ocherki istoricheskogo sintaksisa literaturnogo armyanskogo yazyka). 1959. In Russian.

Kusikyan, I. K. Essays on the Historical Syntax of the Literary Armenian Language (Ocherki istoricheskogo sintaksisa literaturnogo armyanskogo yazyka). 1959. In Russian.

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Kusikyan, I. K. Essays on the Historical Syntax of the Literary Armenian Language (Ocherki istoricheskogo sintaksisa literaturnogo armyanskogo yazyka). 1959. In Russian.

$60.00

Кусикьян И. К. Очерки исторического синтаксиса литературного армянского языка / Академия наук СССР, Институт языкознания.
Москва: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1959. — 164 с.
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Kusikyan I. K. Essays on the Historical Syntax of the Literary Armenian Language / Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Linguistics.
Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1959. — 164 pp.
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A pioneering Soviet study of the historical syntax of literary Armenian by Iosif Karpovich Kusikyan (1903–1972), one of the leading Armenian linguists at the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Drawing on a wide corpus of texts ranging from Grabar (Classical Armenian, 5th–11th centuries), through Middle Armenian (12th–16th centuries), to the formation of modern Ashkharhabar in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kusikyan traces the evolution of word order, the development of subordination, the rise of complex sentences, the differentiation of direct and oblique objects, and the emergence of the modern subordinating apparatus. The seven chapters move chronologically through successive stages of the literary language, with detailed sections on adverbial constructions, isolated participial phrases, and the typology of simple and compound sentences. The work belongs to the great tradition of Russian and Soviet Armenology established by Hrachia Acharian, Manuk Abeghian, and Grigor Kapantsyan, and remains one of the few systematic diachronic syntactic studies of Armenian written in Russian, indispensable for comparative Indo-Europeanists, Caucasologists, and scholars of medieval Armenian textual culture. Issued in only 2,000 copies by the Academy of Sciences press in 1959, the volume has long been out of print and is now seldom encountered outside specialist libraries.

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