Alignment change in Iranian languages a construction grammar approach /
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Mouton de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Series: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
37. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Haig, Geoffrey. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Alignment change in Iranian languages |h [electronic resource] : |b a construction grammar approach / |c Geoffrey L.J. Haig. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Mouton de Gruyter, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a viii, 366 p. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Empirical approaches to language typology ; |v 37 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-358) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Iranian languages |x Verb. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Iranian languages |x Ergative constructions. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Iranian languages |x Transitivity. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Iranian languages |x Tense. | |
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