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Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages

By Saartje Verbeke

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2013
ISBN
311029253X, 9783110292534
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1281320 bytes)
Series
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 51
Pages
320\333
Time added
2016-03-27 19:03:33
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Description

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.

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