Alignment change in Iranian languages
Subtitle: a construction grammar approach
By: Geoffrey L.J. Haig.
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology -- 37
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9783110195866
Subjects: Iranian languages -- Verb; Iranian languages -- Ergative constructions; Iranian languages -- Transitivity; Iranian languages -- Tense
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Aims and assumptions; title: The Iranian languages; title: Alignment in the Iranian context; title: Constructions and syntax; title: Old Iranian; title: The Mana Kartam construction; title: Implications for diachronic syntax; title: What is a passive?; title: Re-assessing the M. K. construction; title: The semantics of the genitive; title: Summing up the alternatives; title: Conclusions; title: Western Middle Iranian; title: Middle Iranian; title: Past transitive constructions; title: The case system; title: Case and person; title: Pronominal clitics; title: Clitics expressing core arguments; title: Past transitive verbs; title: Summary of Middle Iranian; title: Case systems in West Iranian; title: Introduction; title: Three processes; title: Innovated object markers; title: Inhalt; title: The tatic-type languages; title: Explanations for change; title: Case and animacy; title: Towards a solution; title: Summary of case; title: Kurdish (northern group); title: Introduction; title: Overview of the morphosyntax; title: The canonical ergative construction; title: Deviations from canonical ergativity; title: Summary of deviations; title: Evidence from Badynany; title: Summary of the northern group; title: The central group; title: Introduction; title: Suleimani morphosyntax; title: Past transitive constructions; title: Aligning case and agreement; title: Summary of the central group; title: Desire, obligation, possession, and ergativity; title: Conclusions; title: A brief synopsis; title: Areal pressure and alignment change; title: Alignment in Indo-European; title: On explanations for change; title: Appendices; title: Case in Old Persian; title: Changing rules of clitic placement.