TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verbeke,Saartje
TI  - Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages
T2  - Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
SN  - 9783110292534
AV  - PK121 .V47 2013
U1  - 491/.1 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Indo-Aryan languages
KW  - Grammar
KW  - IndoAryan
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Sprachtypologie
KW  - Syntax
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Case Theory
KW  - Ergativity
KW  - Indo-Ayran Languages
KW  - Language Typology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 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 --; 8 Appendix --; 9 References --; Index of subjects --; Index of languages; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan goes beyond the opposition between accusativity and ergativity. The book includes a thorough discussion of the concepts and terminology relating to alignment patterns. The study draws extensively on new language data from Indo-Aryan. It includes discussions of examples taken from Hindi, Sanskrit, Apabhramsa, Asamiya, Bangla, Oriya, the Bihari languages, Nepali, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Siraiki, Poguli, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marwari, Harauti, the Hindi varieties, and Shina. The volume offers a comprehensive overview of various alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan based on a wide range of data. By focusing on lesser known Indo-Aryan languages, the study questions the central position of Hindi-Urdu in the research on ergativity. Each language is treated in its own right, with a focus on language-specific data and analyses, rather than relying on a notional format that starts with pre-established linguistic concepts. In accordance with this methodology, much attention is paid to "indirect" connections between ergative constructions and other syntactic and semantic patterns in the various languages
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292671
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110292671
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110292671/original
ER  -