Alignment change in Iranian languages a construction grammar approach

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haig, Geoffrey (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter c2008.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 37.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31510309*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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;