Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages
Saartje Verbeke
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.
Rok:
2013
Wydawnictwo:
De Gruyter Mouton
Język:
english
Strony:
320
ISBN 10:
311029253X
ISBN 13:
9783110292534
Serie:
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 51
Plik:
PDF, 1.22 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013