Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Eystein Dahl, Krzysztof Stroński (eds.)

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Series: Typological Studies in Language 112
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Ergativity in Indo-Aryan and beyond - Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stroński
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 from a historical perspective - Liudmila 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 Stroński
Language Index
General Index
Author Index

✦ Subjects

Linguistics;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference;Linguistics;