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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haig, Geoffrey L. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
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.