Alignment change in Iranian languages : a construction grammar approach / / Geoffrey L.J. Haig.

• Superior document: Empirical approaches to language typology ; 37
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Haig, Geoffrey.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical approaches to language typology ; 37.
• Physical Description: viii, 366 p.

Table of Contents

• 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.