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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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
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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