Evolution of ergativity in the Western Hindi

Alexander A. Sigorskiy. Evolution of ergativity in the Western Hindi. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 41-58 The early stage of the Western Hindi vernaculars demonstrates two types of typology competing with each other - Nominative typology and Spli...

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Published inLingua Posnaniensis Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 41 - 58
Main Author Sigorskiy, Alexander A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Poznan De Gruyter Open 01.12.2015
Poznanskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Nauk
Subjects
Alignment
Case marking
dative case
Diachronic linguistics
Early Hindi
ergativity
Hindi language
Language
nominative case
Semantic roles
Split ergativity
Syntax
Typological analysis
Western Hindi
India
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Summary:Alexander A. Sigorskiy. Evolution of ergativity in the Western Hindi. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 41-58 The early stage of the Western Hindi vernaculars demonstrates two types of typology competing with each other - Nominative typology and Split Ergative typology. Ergative typology includes a number of ergative strategies existing in different vernaculars and in the one and the same vernacular as well. In the course of standardization of Modern Standard Hindi (MSH) Split Ergative Typology wins. The main features of Old Hindi case system are: 1) Old Hindi demonstrates the same, dative case marking both for Subject (Agent) and Object (Patient), whereas MSH has differentiated these case markers, 2) Old Hindi has two types of agreement - (a) only with unmarked S/O and (b) both with unmarked and marked S/O, while MSH allows only the first one.
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ISSN:2083-6090
0079-4740
2083-6090
DOI:10.1515/linpo-2015-0010