Alignment and ergativity in new indo-aryan languages
By: Saartje Verbeke
Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology -- Volume 51
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton; de Gruyter Mouton; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783110292534; 9783110292671
Subjects: Indo-Aryan languages; Grammar
Description: 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 of previous approaches to ergativity. It analyzes four Indo-Aryan languages- Asamiya, Nepali, Rajasthani and Kashmiri- on the basis of text corpora. Examples from other Indo-Aryan languages are also adduced. The book is a thorough synchronic study of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan languages.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Ghent University, 2011)

Includes bibliographic references (pages 296-315) and indexes.