Indo Aryan Ergativity In Typological And Diachronic Perspective
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| Author | : Eystein Dahl |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2016-06-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027267162 |
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This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field, plus seven papers about the origin, development and distribution of ergative alignment in ancient and modern Indo-Aryan languages written by well-established expert authors. The articles provide detailed explorations of language-specific synchronic systems or patterns of change, and large-scale studies of the distribution of ergative morphosyntax across the Indo-Aryan languages. The papers have a typological-functional approach and are based on thorough fieldwork experience and/or philological investigation. As the Indo-Aryan language family has played a paramount role in recent theories of Ergativity and of alignment typology and change, this volume is highly relevant to experts working on these languages and to scholars interested in grammatical relations and it will figure in all future debates in these fields
| Author | : Eystein Dahl |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2022-08-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0192599771 |
Download Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.
| Author | : Eleanor Coghill |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2016-09-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191035742 |
Download The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense-conditioned ergative alignment in the perfect, which later developed into a past perfective. However, while some modern dialects preserve a degree of ergative alignment, it has been eroded by movement towards semantic/Split-S alignment and by the use of separate marking for the patient, and some dialects have lost ergative alignment altogether. Thus an entire cycle of alignment change can be traced, something which had previously been considered unlikely. Eleanor Coghill examines evidence from ancient Aramaic texts, recent dialectal documentation, and cross-linguistic parallels to provide an account of the pathways through which these alignment changes took place. She argues that what became the ergative construction was originally limited mostly to verbs with an experiencer role, such as 'see' and 'hear', which could encode the experiencer with a dative. While this dative-experiencer scenario shows some formal similarities with other proposed explanations for alignment change, the data analysed in this book show that it is clearly distinct. The book draws important theoretical conclusions on the development of tense-conditioned alignment cross-linguistically, and provides a valuable basis for further research.
| Author | : Christina Willis Oko |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2019-08-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004409491 |
Download A Grammar of Darma Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
| Author | : Walter Bisang |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : 3946234992 |
Download Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language families (Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Bantu, Mande, "Khoisan", Siouan, and Mayan). The volume stands out in the vast literature on grammaticalization by focusing on variation in grammaticalization scenarios and areal patterns in grammaticalization. Apart from documenting new grammaticalization paths, the volume makes a methodological contribution as it addresses an important question of how to reconcile universal outcomes of grammaticalization processes with the fact that the input to these processes is language-specific and construction-specific.
| Author | : Colin P. Masica |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 1993-09-09 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521299442 |
Download The Indo-Aryan Languages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Colin Masica has provided a fundamental introduction which will interest not only general and theoretical linguists but also students of one or more of these languages who want to acquaint themselves with the broader linguistic context. Generally synchronic in approach, concentrating on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the modern representatives of the group, the volume also covers their historical development, areal context, writing systems and aspects of sociolinguistics. The survey is organised not on a language-by-language basis but by topic, so that salient theoretical issues may be discussed in a comparative context.
| Author | : Chiara Fedriani |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2020-10-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110701472 |
Download The Diachrony of Ditransitives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.
| Author | : Ghanshyam Sharma |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2018-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110608065 |
Download Trends in Hindi Linguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Trends in Hindi Linguistics provides a snapshot of current developments in Hindi syntax and semantics and covers topics such as definiteness marking, comparative constructions with differentials, conjunct verbs, participial relative clauses, ellipsis, scrambling, infinitives and directive strategies. Together these papers give a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research on Hindi.
| Author | : Robert McColl Millar |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2023-05-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000861112 |
Download Trask's Historical Linguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical linguistics, linguistic reconstruction, sociolinguistic aspects of language change, language contact, the birth and death of languages, language and prehistory, and the issue of very remote relations. The fourth edition of this renowned textbook is fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments in historical linguistics, including: A thorough reworking of sections on morphological and syntactic change, incorporating progress in areas such as grammaticalization and the discussion of the Indo-European ‘homeland’ Discussion and analysis of ‘folk’ historical linguistics and its connection with some of the more eccentric views of professional linguists An expanded discussion of language contact, historical sociolinguistics, and language planning, including a discussion of contemporary competing views on the genesis and nature of creoles, and their importance in our understanding of radical linguistic change Updated support material including suggestions for essay questions and a larger number of supporting examples of the phenomena described in the book Trask’s Historical Linguistics is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of historical linguistics as well as any student looking for a grounded introduction to the English language.
| Author | : Krzysztof Stroński |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2011-01 |
| Genre | : Indo-Aryan languages |
| ISBN | : 9788323222064 |
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