Alignment change in Iranian languages a construction grammar approach /
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Edice: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
37. |
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- 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.