Alignment Change in Iranian Languages : a Construction Grammar Approach.
The Iranian languages, due to their exceptional time-depth of attestation, constitute one of the very few instances where a shift from accusative alignment to split-ergativity is actually documented. Yet remarkably, within historical syntax, the Iranian case has received only very superficial covera...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Aims and assumptions
- The Iranian languages
- Alignment in the Iranian context
- Constructions and syntax
- Old Iranian
- The Mana Kartam construction
- Implications for diachronic syntax
- What is a passive?
- Re-assessing the M.K. construction
- The semantics of the genitive
- Summing up the alternatives
- Conclusions
- Western Middle Iranian
- Middle Iranian
- Past transitive constructions
- The case system
- Case and person
- Pronominal clitics
- Clitics expressing core arguments
- Past transitive verbs
- Summary of Middle Iranian
- Case systems in West Iranian
- Introduction
- Three processes
- Innovated object markers
- Inhalt
- The tatic-type languages
- Explanations for change
- Case and animacy
- Towards a solution
- Summary of case
- Kurdish (northern group)
- Introduction
- Overview of the morphosyntax
- The canonical ergative construction
- Deviations from canonical ergativity
- Summary of deviations
- Evidence from Badynany
- Summary of the northern group
- The central group
- Introduction
- Suleimani morphosyntax
- Past transitive constructions
- Aligning case and agreement
- Summary of the central group
- Desire, obligation, possession, and ergativity
- Conclusions
- A brief synopsis
- Areal pressure and alignment change
- Alignment in Indo-European
- On explanations for change
- Appendices
- Case in Old Persian
- Changing rules of clitic placement.