عنوان

Alignment change in Iranian languages

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‭ 322963 Rls‬‬

Number

56916

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Alignment change in Iranian languages

Other Title Information

:a construction grammar approach

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Geoffrey L.J. Haig

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Mouton de Gruyter

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

‭viii, 366 p.‬

Series Title

(Empirical approaches to language typology

Volume Designation

; ‌37‬)

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Introduction -- Aims and assumptions -- The Iranian languages -- Alignment in the Iranian context -- Constructions and syntax -- Old Iranian -- The Mana Kartam construction -- Implications for diachronic syntax -- What is a passive? -- Re-assessing the M. K. construction -- The semantics of the genitive -- Summing up the alternatives -- Conclusions -- Western Middle Iranian -- Middle Iranian -- Past transitive constructions -- The case system -- Case and person -- Pronominal clitics -- Clitics expressing core arguments -- Past transitive verbs -- Summary of Middle Iranian -- Case systems in West Iranian -- Introduction -- Three processes -- Innovated object markers -- Inhalt -- The tatic-type languages -- Explanations for change -- Case and animacy -- Towards a solution -- Summary of case -- Kurdish (northern group) -- Introduction -- Overview of the morphosyntax -- The canonical ergative construction -- Deviations from canonical ergativity -- Summary of deviations -- Evidence from Badynany -- Summary of the northern group -- The central group -- Introduction -- Suleimani morphosyntax -- Past transitive constructions -- Aligning case and agreement -- Summary of the central group -- Desire, obligation, possession, and ergativity -- Conclusions -- A brief synopsis -- Areal pressure and alignment change -- Alignment in Indo-European -- On explanations for change -- Appendices -- Case in Old Persian -- Changing rules of clitic placement.

Entry Element

زبان‌های ایرانی

Topical Subdivision

-- فعل

Iranian languages, Verb

Iranian languages - Ergative constructions

Iranian languages - Transitivity

Iranian languages - Tense

Haig, Geoffrey., هیگ، جفری

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