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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Main Author: Haig, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York Mouton de Gruyter [2008]
© 2008
Series:Empirical approaches to language typology 37
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Online Access:DE-1046
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DE-188
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Summary: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 coverage. This book provides the first in-depth treatment of alignment change in Iranian, from Old Persian (5 C. BC) to the present. The first part of the book examines the claim that ergativity in Middle Iranian emerged from an Old Iranian agented passive construction. This view is rejected in favour of
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 366 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110198614
DOI:10.1515/9783110198614

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