Northeast Caucasian Languages David Erschler Introduction General Overviews Reference grammars Overviews of Morphology Overviews of Syntax Historical Phonology Historical Morphology Formal Analyses Argument Marking Agreement Morphological Complexity Finiteness TAM categories Binding Descriptive work on specific languages or language groups Akhvakh Tsez Avar Lak Dargi Lezgian Agul Archi Tabasaran Tsakhur Budukh and Kryz Caucasian Albanian and Udi Khinalug Batsbi Ingush Chechen Introduction Northeast Caucasian (also often referred to as Nakh-Dag(h)estanian) languages are autochthonously spoken in Daghestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, autonomous republics within the Russian Federation, as well as in Azerbaijan, and Georgia. By Dag(h)estanian languages, the non-Nakh members of the family are subsumed in the literature, although non-Nakh languages apparently do not form a genetic unit; nor are they all spoken in Daghestan. NEC languages are conjectured to be related to the Northwest Caucasian languages, Nikolaev and Starostin (1994), but this conjecture has not gained much support so