Ossetic

Kafkasya, coğrafi konumu itibarıyla küresel ve bölgesel güçler nazarında stratejik öneme sahip bir bölgedir. Kafkas dağlarının ikiye ayırdığı bölgenin kuzey ve güney kısımlarında bugün bağımsız ve özerk statüde 15 etnik kökenli siyasi yapı ve bunların bünyesinde de dil, din, köken bakımından birbirinden farklı çok sayıda halk bulunmaktadır. Söz konusu siyasi yapıların birçoğu komşularıyla etnik temelli anlaşmazlıklar ve sınır problemleri yaşamaktadır. Kökleri Çarlık Rusya'sı dönemine kadar uzanan bu sorunlar, küresel ve bölgesel etkiler doğurabilecek sıcak çatışma riskini her daim canlı tutmaktadır. Kafkasya'nın otokton halklarından kabul edilen Osetler, söz konusu çatışma alanlarından birkaçının öznesi durumundadır. Osetler, sahip oldukları bazı özelliklerden dolayı bilhassa Rusya nazarında komşularına göre stratejik açıdan daha ön plana çıkan bir halktır. Buna bağlı olarak Rus hükümeti tarafından 18. yüzyılda Osetler hakkında araştırmalar başlatılmış, 1801'de Gürcistan'ın ilhakına müteakip de bu halka dair ilk bilimsel çalışmalar kaleme alınmaya başlanmıştır. Böylece günümüze dek Osetlerin dili, kültürü, tarihi, etnik kökeni, komşularıyla ilişkileri hakkında Rusça çok sayıda akademik eser ortaya konulmuştur. Söz konusu alanlarda Osetlerle ilgili yapılan Türkçe çalışmalar veya bilgi içeren eserler ise sayılıdır. Türkiye'de Oset araştırmalarının geliştirilmesi için Rusça kaynak ve kaynakçaların öğrenilmesi ve bunlardan istifade edilmesi mühimdir. Bu eserler; Osetlerin siyasi, idari ve kültürel gelişimleri hakkında yürütülecek araştırmalara ışık tutması bakımından önem arz etmektedir.

The Caucasus is a strategically important region for the global and regional powers in terms of its geographical location. In the northern and southern parts of the region, which is divided by the Caucasus mountains, there are now 15 independent and autonomous political institutions of ethnic origin and a large number of different nations in terms of language, religion, and race. Many of these political entities have ethnic-based conflicts and border problems with their neighbors, which date back to the period of Tsarist Russia. These problems always keep the risk of hot conflicts that may have global and regional effects alive. Ossetians, which are accepted from the autochthonous peoples of the Caucasus, are the subjects of many of these conflict areas. The Osetians are strategically more prominent among their neighbors with some of their characteristics, especially in the case of Russia. Consequently, researches on Osseties by the Russian government started in the 18th century, and following the annexation of Georgia in 1801. Thus, so far, many academic works on Russian language, history, culture, ethnic origin, relations with neighbors have been revealed. These sources and bibliographies are important in terms of shedding light on the researches about the political, administrative and cultural development of Ossetians. In the aforementioned area Turkish studies about Ossetians or works containing information are scarce. In the mentioned fields, Turkish studies or works containing information about Ossetians are numbered. It is important to learn and use Russian sources and bibliography for the development of Ossetian studies in Turkey. These works are important to shed light on the researches about the political, administrative and cultural development of Ossetians.

See the content of the collective monograph 'Clause Architecture in the Parametric Models: Syntax, Information Structure, Word Order' (Anton Zimmerling & Ekaterina Lyutikova, eds.), to be published 2016 in Russian, by the Publishing House LRC 'Languages of Russian Culture'.
The summary is below.

This collective monograph is prepared by a group of Russian linguists sharing the interest to typology, formal models of grammar and interface phenomena. The authors aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. We implement methods of parametric typology and aim at explaining complex multi-layered phenomena in terms of feature combinations which set out both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open class of world's languages which apply to word order alternations, shifting in accent markings and morphosyntactic marking as means of encoding information structure.
The focus of our research interest is in the interaction of formal syntax and information structure and on word order systems of scrambling languages which are described in terms of linear-accent transformations, i.e. rules which at once change linear position and communicative status/accent marking of sentence elements. Most authors share the derivational approach to word order systems and work out the hypothesis that some basic word order can be established for scrambling languages too. Within the derivational approach, word order alternations can be explained at the level of narrow syntax, s(yntactic)-structure, cf. Chapters 4, 13 and 15, as well as on the level of c-(ommunicative) structure, cf. Chapters 1, 3 and 7.
Parametrization of language diversity is a dynamic research field in the linguistics of late XX – XXI centuries. In this particular field, adepts of formal and functional frameworks have many shared research issues and the dialogue between different schools in linguistics can be fruitful. These considerations have shaped the methodological component of the present monograph. Syntactic and communicative phenomena of different world's languages are parametrized, which gives a chance to reveal basic principles underlying them and to understand their role in the integral models of the natural language. The book consists of three parts. Chapter 1 “Clause Architecture and Information Structure” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Anton Zimmerling) sets the general perspective.
Part I is devoted to the interaction of grammatical and communicative mechanisms relevant for the clause architecture. Chapters 2 “Communicative Structure and Linear-Accent Transformations” (Elena Paducheva) and 3 “Linear-Accent Grammar and Thetic Sentences in Russian” (Anton Zimmerling) introduce the notion of linear-accent transformations (LA-transformations) and investigate the potential of LA-grammars for the analysis of Russian and comparable data. Chapter 4 “Low Left Periphery in Hittite: a Formal Analysis” (Andrey Sideltsev) aims at modeling the complex interactions of grammar-internal and communicative aspects of Hittite word order and clause architecture. Chapter 5 “A Multilevel Theory of Clause Combining:  Ossetic and Russian Revisited” (Oleg Belyaev), discusses the strategies of clause combined in Ossetic. Chapter 6 “Verbal Reprise in Irish” (Maria Shkapa) is devoted to one non-trivial communicative operation which becomes possible due to language-specific settings of the clause architecture.
Part II is devoted to issues in clitic studies. Chapter 7 “Clause structure, linear-accent transformations and clitics in Middle  Norwegian” (Anton Zimmerling) sets the issues of clitic ordering in a more general context of clause structure ordering. Chapters 8 “The Syntax of Dative clitics in South Slavic lnaguages” (Galina Petrova & Elena Ivanova) and 9 “Bulgarian clitics” (Elena Ivanova) solve the problems of parametric description of clitics and the interactions of clitic ordering with communicative structure on the basis of several South Slavic languages. Chapter 10 “On Russian endoclitics” (Peter Arkadiev) raises a hypothesis that Russian primary prepositions are endoclitics. Finally, chapter 11 “Impersonal Sentences with an Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer in Bulgarian” (Elena Ivanova) is devoted to a non-trivial interaction of grammar and prosody in Bulgarian, where the presence of clause-level clitics (i.e. a particular type of prosodic structure) is mapped to a particular type of sentence constructions. 
Part III includes chapters devoted to parametric modeling of the basic morphosyntactic mechanisms underlying clause structure — case and agreement. Chapter 12 “Case theory in the Perspective of Case Variation” (Ekaterina Lyutikova & Dilya Ibatullina) discusses mechanisms of case assignment and their parametrization with respect to the case source, agreement and mapping of syntactic and morphological case. The discussion of a non-trivial interaction between subject case marking and predicate agreement is continued in chapter 13 “(Non) agreement of participles and Two Constructions with Non-nominative Subjects in Lithuanian” (Peter Arkadiev). Chapter 14 “The Structural Position of the Direct Object and Information Structure: a view from Pechora dialect of Komi-Zyrian” (Natalia Serdobolskaya & Svetlana Toldova) discusses the interaction of grammatical, referential and communicative factors with the so called differential object marking. Chapter 15 “Syntactic and Semantic Typology of Genitives — the Genitive of Quality as a Locus of Adjectival Features, a View from Russian” (Pavel Graschenkov) is devoted to a non-trivial mapping of syntax and semantic interpretation in constructions with the genetive of quality; this mapping sheds light on their on the special status of this construction in the perspective of word order and branching conditions. Chapter 16 “Person Agreement in the Dargic Languages: an OT and LFG Analysis” (Oleg Belyaev) offers analysis of person agreement mechanisms in terms of two formal frameworks.