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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465536603321

Titolo

Indo-Aryan ergativity in typological and diachronic perspective / / edited by Eystein Dahl, Krzysztof Stronski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Typological Studies in Language, , 0167-7373 ; ; Volume 112

Disciplina

491/.1

Soggetti

Indo-Aryan language - Ergative constructions

Indo-Aryan language - Grammar

Typology (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ergativity in Indo-Aryan and beyond / Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stronski -- Looking for ergativity in Indo-Aryan / Saartje Verbeke and Eva De Clercq -- The origin and development of the Old Indo-Aryan predicated tá construction / Eystein Dahl -- On the establishment of ergative alignment during the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period / Vit Bubenik -- Why the ergative case in modal (in)transitive clauses? The historical evolution of Aspect, modality, ergative and locative in Indo-Aryan / Annie Montaut -- Ergative alignment in Western New Indo-Aryan languages in historical perspective -- Ludmila V. Khokhlova -- The restoration of the ergative case-marking of "A" in perfective clauses in New Indo-Aryan: the case of the Braj language / Andrea Drocco -- Syntactic lability vs. ergativity in Indo-Aryan / Krzysztof Stronski.