Indo-Aryan ergativity in typological and diachronic perspective / edited by Eystein Dahl, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway ; Krzysztof Stronski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Other author Dahl, Eystein.
Other author Stroński, Krzysztof.
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Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
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SeriesTypological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; 112
Contents Ergativity in Indo-Aryan and beyond / Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stronski -- Looking for ergativity in Indo-Aryan / Saartje Verbeke and Eva De Clercq -- The origin and development of the Old Indo-Aryan predicated tá construction / Eystein Dahl -- On the establishment of ergative alignment during the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period / Vit Bubenik -- Why the ergative case in modal (in)transitive clauses? The historical evolution of Aspect, modality, ergative and locative in Indo-Aryan / Annie Montaut -- Ergative alignment in Western New Indo-Aryan languages in historical perspective -- Ludmila V. Khokhlova -- The restoration of the ergative case-marking of "A" in perfective clauses in New Indo-Aryan: the case of the Braj language / Andrea Drocco -- Syntactic lability vs. ergativity in Indo-Aryan / Krzysztof Stronski.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Indo-Aryan ergativity in typological and diachronic perspective Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027206930
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