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Download or read book Ingush Grammar written by Johanna Nichols and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive reference grammar of Ingush, a language of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian language family of the central Caucasus (southern Russia). Ingush is notable for its complex phonology, prosody including minimal tone system, complex morphology of both nouns and verbs, clause chaining, long-distance reflexivization, and extreme degree of syntactic ergativity.