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The rise and fall of ergativity in Aramaic : cycles of alignment change /
This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eleanor Coghill examines evidence from ancient Aramaic texts, recent dialectal documentation, and cross-linguistic parallels to provide an account of the pathways through whic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover ; The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change; Copyright; Dedication ; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; List of maps and tables; Maps; Tables; Abbreviations and glosses; Transcription of Semitic languages; Symbols; Signs used in texts; 1: Introduction; 2: Alignment; 2.1 Alignment of verbal arguments; 2.1.1 Syntactic alignment; 2.1.2 Semantic/Split-S alignment; 2.1.3 Manifestation of alignment; 2.2 Pathways of alignment change; 2.2.1 Introduction; 2.2.2 Accusative> ergative; i. Via a passive construction
- Ii. Via a possessive predication constructioniii. Pathways involving a passive/P-oriented participle; iv. Via an inverse construction; v. Via the reanalysis of an instrumental as ergative in a clause with zero-marked subject; vi. Via a nominalization as part of a periphrastic verb form; 2.2.3 Ergative> accusative; i. Via an antipassive; ii. Via an analytical verb form involving an intransitive auxiliary; iii. Via the reanalysis of topic copy pronouns as person indexing on the verb; 2.2.4 Tense-conditioned alignment arising via new constructions
- 2.2.5 Shift from tense-conditioned to consistent alignment2.2.6 Accusative> semantic alignment via demotion/suppression of agent; 2.2.7 Accusative> semantic alignment via extension; 2.2.8 Ergative> semantic alignment via demotion/suppression of object; 2.2.9 Similarities and differences between the pathways from syntactic to semantic alignment; 2.2.10 Semantic> syntactic (accusative or ergative) alignment; i. (Ergative>) semantic> accusative through extension; ii. (Accusative>) semantic> ergative through extension; iii. Process of extension
- 2.2.11 Reconstructing alignment change on the basis of markedness2.2.12 Processes involved in alignment change; 2.2.13 The role of language contact; 2.3 The development of tense-conditioned ergativity in Aramaic, Iranian, and Indic; 2.4 A full cycle of alignment change; 3: Aramaic; 3.1 Historical stages of Aramaic; 3.2 Morphosyntactic typology of Aramaic; 3.2.1 Root-and-pattern system; 3.2.2 Argument marking; 3.2.3 Word order; 3.2.4 Nominal morphology; 4: Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Dialects with only accusative alignment; 4.2.1 Definition
- 4.2.2 Dialects with full inversion of subject/object indexes4.2.3 Dialects which only allow S-suffix objects in the third person or not at all; 4.2.4 Summary; 4.3 Jewish South-Eastern Trans-Zab dialects; 4.3.1 Definition; 4.3.2 Alignment in argument indexes; 4.3.3 Semantic/Split-S alignment; 4.4 Excursus: Is there syntactic ergativity in NENA?; 4.4.1 Indexation; 4.4.2 Coreferentiality; 4.4.3 Word order; 4.4.4 Control of reflexives; 4.4.5 Relativization; 4.4.6 Summary; 4.5 Dialects with non-accusative alignment in the perfect; 4.5.1 Definition