Alignment and alignment change in the Indo-European family

Alignment and alignment change in the Indo-European family / edited by Eystein Dahl.

"This volume advances research on diachronic alignment typology across the Indo-European family, showing the breadth and fertility of this field. It brings together contributions from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors contributing to...

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Other Authors: Dahl, Eystein (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 50.
Subjects:
Indo-European languages.
Indo-European languages > Ergative constructions.
Linguistic change.
Indo-European languages
Indo-European languages > Ergative constructions
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Table of Contents:
  • Alignment and alignment change in the Indo-European family and beyond / Eystein Dahl
  • Alignment in Proto-Indo-European / Eystein Dahl
  • Split alignment, mixed alignment, and the spread of accusative morphosyntax in some archaic Indo-European languages / Paola Cotticelli and Eystein Dahl
  • The origin of ergative case markers: The case of Hittite revisited / Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese
  • Passives and anticausatives in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives / Hans Henrich Hock
  • Non-nominative arguments, active impersonals, and control in Latin / Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio
  • Infinitives and subjecthood between Latin and Old Italian / Claudia Fabrizio
  • Alignment changes with Spanish experiential verbs / Chantal Melis
  • Armenian morphosyntactic alignment in diachrony / Robin Meyer
  • Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic / Ilja A. Seržant and others.

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