Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages
The book provides an overview of the alignment patterns found in modern Indo-Aryan languages. The analysis of the patterns of case marking and agreement leads to a balanced view on the concept of ergativity and evaluates its value for typological linguistics. The book offers an extensive discussion...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology ; v.51. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30838551*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Theoretical preliminaries; 1.1 Ergativity from a functional and typological perspective; 1.1.1 Ergativity: the standard functional-typological definition; 1.1.2 Core arguments and grammatical relations; 1.1.2.1 The subject issue; 1.1.2.2 Grammatical relations; 1.1.2.3 Case; 1.1.2.4 Verb agreement; 1.1.3 Alignment splits based on referential hierarchies; 1.1.3.1 Silverstein's hierarchy; 1.1.3.2 Differential object marking: the markedness discussion; 1.1.3.3 Differential subject marking.
- 1.1.4 Tense/Aspect/Mood and head- vs. dependent-marking1.1.4.1 Tense/Aspect/Mood split; 1.1.4.2 Case marking and verb agreement; 1.2 Direct and indirect motivations of ergativity; 1.2.1 Ergativity in discourse-functional and cognitive linguistics; 1.2.1.1 Du Bois: "The discourse base of ergativity"; 1.2.1.2 Cognitive accounts; 1.2.2 Historical motivations; 1.2.3 Case and transitivity; 1.2.3.1 An alternative view of ergativity; 1.2.3.2 Transitivity: from Sapir to Hopper and Thompson; 1.3 Conclusions; 2 Indo-Aryan; 2.1 Geographical distribution of the Indo-Aryan languages.
- 2.2 Alignment in Hindi2.3 Origin of the ergative pattern in Indo-Aryan; 2.3.1 Historical overview; 2.3.1.1 Old Indo-Aryan; 2.3.1.2 Middle Indo-Aryan; 2.3.1.3 New Indo-Aryan: Early Hindi; 2.3.2 Passive reanalysis; 2.3.3 Ergative remains ergative?; 2.4 Some key concepts of the Indo-Aryan languages; 2.4.1 Masica's layer system; 2.4.2 The verb system in Indo-Aryan; 2.4.2.1 The participial base of the verb system in Indo-Aryan; 2.4.2.2 Light verbs and lexical compound predicates; 2.4.2.3 Perfect, perfective, and past; 2.4.2.4 Passives; 2.4.2.5 Causatives; 2.4.3 Experiencer constructions.
- 2.4.4 Unergatives3 Eastern Indo-Aryan: Asamiya; 3.1 Asamiya: description; 3.1.1 Case marking in Asamiya; 3.1.2 Case marking of the subject; 3.1.3 Differential object marking and the dual marking of IO; 3.1.3.1 O-marking; 3.1.3.2 Dual marking of IO; 3.1.3.3 Experiencer constructions; 3.1.4 Verb agreement in Asamiya; 3.2 The transitive verb; 3.2.1 The transitive verb in Eastern Indo-Aryan; 3.2.1.1 The transitive verb in the Bihari languages; 3.2.1.2 Honorific agreement in Maithili; 3.2.1.3 Honorific agreement in Magahi; 3.2.2 The transitive verb in an Eastern Hindi variety.
- 3.3 Ergative marking in Eastern Indo-Aryan3.4 Conclusion; 4 Northern Indo-Aryan: Nepali; 4.1 Nepali: description; 4.1.1 Case marking in Nepali; 4.1.2 Case marking of the core arguments; 4.1.3 Verb agreement in Nepali; 4.2 Reanalysis and extension of the postposition le; 4.2.1 Previous accounts; 4.2.1.1 Focalization; 4.2.1.2 Syntactic restrictions; 4.2.1.3 Disambiguation hypothesis; 4.2.1.4 Stage- vs. individual-level predicates; 4.2.2 Perfective aspect expressed by le; 4.3 Language contact; 4.4 Conclusion: alignment in Nepali; 5 Western Indo-Aryan: Kashmiri; 5.1 Kashmiri: description.
