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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dahl, Eystein, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 50.

Oxford scholarship online

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realisation. The chapters have a strong empirical focus, drawing on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic.

Contents:

Cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Contents

Series preface

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

The contributors

1 Alignment and alignment change in the Indo-European family and beyond

2 Alignment in Proto-Indo-European

3 Split alignment, mixed alignment, and the spread of accusative morphosyntax in some archaic Indo-European languages

4 The origin of ergative case markers: The case of Hittite revisited

5 Passives and anticausatives in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives

6 Non-nominative arguments, active impersonals, and control in Latin

7 Infinitives and subjecthood between Latin and Old Italian

8 Alignment changes with Spanish experiential verbs

9 Armenian morphosyntactic alignment in diachrony

10 Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Dahl, Eystein Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family

ISBN:

0-19-189047-2

0-19-259977-1