Alignment change in Iranian languages (Record no. 31120)
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| fixed length control field | 02913nam a22003614a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 491/.5 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Haig, Geoffrey. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Alignment change in Iranian languages |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Mouton de Gruyter, |
| Year of publication | 2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii, 366 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Empirical approaches to language typology ; |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Iranian languages |
| Topical Term | Iranian languages |
| Topical Term | Iranian languages |
| Topical Term | Iranian languages |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10256575 |
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