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 L.J
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2008
Mouton de Gruyter
De Gruyter, Inc
De Gruyter Mouton
Edition1
SeriesEmpirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
Subjects
Construction grammar
Construction grammar, Iranian, Kurdish
Ergative constructions
Iran /Sprache
Iranian languages
Iranian languages > Ergative constructions
Iranian languages > Tense
Iranian languages > Transitivity
Iranian languages > Verb
Iranska språk Ergativ Verb Transitivitet
Kurdisch
Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Tense
Transitivity
Verb
Construction grammar, Iranian, Kurdish
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Alignment in Old Iranian -- Chapter 3. Western Middle Iranian -- Chapter 4. Case systems in West Iranian -- Chapter 5. Kurdish (Northern Group) -- Chapter 6. The Central group -- Chapter 7. Conclusions -- Backmatter
  • Backmatter
  • Contents --
  • Abbreviations --
  • Chapter 2. Alignment in Old Iranian --
  • Chapter 1. Introduction --
  • Chapter 6. The Central group --
  • Chapter 5. Kurdish (Northern Group) --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Chapter 4. Case systems in West Iranian --
  • Chapter 3. Western Middle Iranian --
  • Chapter 7. Conclusions --