Alignment Change in Iranian Languages : : A Construction Grammar Approach / / Geoffrey L.J. Haig.
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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Haig, Geoffrey L.J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Alignment Change in Iranian Languages : A Construction Grammar Approach / Geoffrey L.J. Haig. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (366 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 0933-761X ; 37 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 coverage. This book provides the first in-depth treatment of alignment change in Iranian, from Old Persian (5 C. BC) to the present. The first part of the book examines the claim that ergativity in Middle Iranian emerged from an Old Iranian agented passive construction. This view is rejected in favour of a theory which links the emergence of ergativity to External Possession. Thus the primary mechanisms involved is not reanalysis, but the extension of a pre-existing construction. The notion of Non-Canonical Subjecthood plays a pivotal role, which in the present account is linked to the semantics of what is termed Indirect Participation. In the second part of the book, a comparative look at contemporary West Iranian is undertaken. It can be shown that throughout the subsequent developments in the morphosyntax, distinct components such as agreement, nominal case marking, or the grammar of cliticisation, in fact developed remarkably independently of one another. It was this de-coupling of sub-systems of the morphosyntax that led to the notorious multiplicity of alignment types in Iranian, a fact that also characterises past-tense alignments in the sister branch of Indo-European, Indo-Aryan. Along with data from more than 20 Iranian languages, presented in a manner that renders them accessible to the non-specialist, there is extensive discussion of more general topics such as the adequacy of functional accounts of changes in case systems, discourse pressure and the role of animacy, the notion of drift, and the question of alignment in early Indo-European. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Iranian languages Ergative constructions. Iranian languages Tense. Iranian languages Transitivity. Iranian languages Verb. Construction grammar. Iran /Sprache. Kurdisch. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh Construction grammar, Iranian, Kurdish. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 9783110238570 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN) 9783110238457 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014 9783110636970 ZDB-23-DLS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015 9783110742961 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2008 9783110212129 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2008 9783110212136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2008 9783110209457 ZDB-23-DGA print 9783110195866 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198614 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110198614 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110198614/original |
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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 |
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