Diachronic syntax : : the Kartvelian case / / Alice C. Harris.

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Superior document:Syntax and Semantics ; Volume 18
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Place / Publishing House:Orlando, Florida : : Academic Press,, [1985]
©1985
Year of Publication:1985
Language:English
Series:Syntax and semantics ; Volume 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Problem
  • Theory and Method
  • Synchronic Case Marking
  • Reconstruction of Case Morphology
  • Series II Predates Series I
  • Reconstruction of Series II Case Marking
  • An Account of the Development of Series I
  • Ablaut
  • The Origin of Series Markers
  • The Plural Agreement Marker -en
  • Case Marking in the Object Demotion Construction
  • The Picture That Emerges
  • Inversion and the Origins of Series III and IV
  • Ergative to Active: The Mechanism of Change in Georgian
  • Case Changes Resulting from the Ergative-to-Active Shift
  • Concomitants of Change
  • Case Alignment: Diachrony and Synchrony
  • References
  • Index
  • Syntax and Semantics.