Alignment and ergativity in new Indo-Aryan Languages
"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…
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- Full title :Alignment and ergativity in new Indo-Aryan Languages / Saartje Verbeke.
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"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"--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Ghent University, 2011).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (319 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110292671, 311029267X
- DOI:10.1515/9783110292671
- oclc:ocn851969954
- LC Classification:PK121
- Dewey Decimal:491.1
Table of Contents
1. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2. Indo-Aryan -- 3. Eastern Indo-Aryan: Asamiya -- 4. Northern Indo-Aryan: Nepali -- 5. Western Indo-Aryan: Kashmiri -- 6. Central Indo-Aryan: Rajasthani -- 7. Conclusion.
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