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Haig G, Nau N, Schnell S, Wegener C. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, durin... more Haig G, Nau N, Schnell S, Wegener C. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, during, and after the DoBeS programme. In: Haig G, Nau N, Schnell S, Wegener C, eds. Documenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs. Vol 240. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 2011: 1-14
Empirical approaches to language typology, Jan 16, 2008
This book presents an account of alignment shifts in Iranian languages and covers a time-span of ... more This book presents an account of alignment shifts in Iranian languages and covers a time-span of some two and half millennia. It blends data from more than 20 Iranian languages, past and present, with theoretical discussion of alignment (ergativity, accusativity), subjecthood, diachronic syntax and morphology. No specialist knowledge of the Iranian languages is presupposed. The most detailed analyses of single languages are from Kurdish, based on extensive original field-work. Ergativity in Iranian is shown to be most prominently linked to the notion of Non-Canonical Subject. The results have repercussions for theories of alignment and grammatical relations, morphosyntactic change, and for comparative syntax of Indo-European.
The oldest attested Iranian languages underwent erosion and loss (or at least simplification) of ... more The oldest attested Iranian languages underwent erosion and loss (or at least simplification) of much of their inherited inflectional morphology. These processes, echoing similar developments elsewhere in Indo-European, affected the categories of gender, case, aspect, person, and modality. The modern languages have since restored the old categories to varying degrees, providing a rich source for observing the mechanisms of grammaticalization. This chapter focuses on the innovation of inflectional person marking, based on erstwhile clitic pronouns. While person indexing for subjects may adhere to the predicted pathway for the grammaticalization of agreement, yielding obligatory verb-bound agreement markers in some languages, the grammaticalization of object indexing does not progress beyond the stage of clitic pronouns, despite the same etymological origin as the subject pronouns, and an even longer time-depth. The chapter also discusses the grammaticalization of a new accusative case marker in Persian, and of an innovated progressive aspect.
... of this particle, glossed here simply part: (30) belê, min î masî girtî-n yes, 1s: obl part f... more ... of this particle, glossed here simply part: (30) belê, min î masî girtî-n yes, 1s: obl part fish (pl) catch: ptcpl-pl 'Yes, I have caught ... this section are from Samvelian (2007), unless stated otherwise: (33) lebâs-e zibâ dress-ez beautiful'the beautiful dress' (34) lebâs-e maryam dress-ez ...
Haig G, Nau N, Schnell S, Wegener C. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, durin... more Haig G, Nau N, Schnell S, Wegener C. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, during, and after the DoBeS programme. In: Haig G, Nau N, Schnell S, Wegener C, eds. Documenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs. Vol 240. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 2011: 1-14
Empirical approaches to language typology, Jan 16, 2008
This book presents an account of alignment shifts in Iranian languages and covers a time-span of ... more This book presents an account of alignment shifts in Iranian languages and covers a time-span of some two and half millennia. It blends data from more than 20 Iranian languages, past and present, with theoretical discussion of alignment (ergativity, accusativity), subjecthood, diachronic syntax and morphology. No specialist knowledge of the Iranian languages is presupposed. The most detailed analyses of single languages are from Kurdish, based on extensive original field-work. Ergativity in Iranian is shown to be most prominently linked to the notion of Non-Canonical Subject. The results have repercussions for theories of alignment and grammatical relations, morphosyntactic change, and for comparative syntax of Indo-European.
The oldest attested Iranian languages underwent erosion and loss (or at least simplification) of ... more The oldest attested Iranian languages underwent erosion and loss (or at least simplification) of much of their inherited inflectional morphology. These processes, echoing similar developments elsewhere in Indo-European, affected the categories of gender, case, aspect, person, and modality. The modern languages have since restored the old categories to varying degrees, providing a rich source for observing the mechanisms of grammaticalization. This chapter focuses on the innovation of inflectional person marking, based on erstwhile clitic pronouns. While person indexing for subjects may adhere to the predicted pathway for the grammaticalization of agreement, yielding obligatory verb-bound agreement markers in some languages, the grammaticalization of object indexing does not progress beyond the stage of clitic pronouns, despite the same etymological origin as the subject pronouns, and an even longer time-depth. The chapter also discusses the grammaticalization of a new accusative case marker in Persian, and of an innovated progressive aspect.
... of this particle, glossed here simply part: (30) belê, min î masî girtî-n yes, 1s: obl part f... more ... of this particle, glossed here simply part: (30) belê, min î masî girtî-n yes, 1s: obl part fish (pl) catch: ptcpl-pl 'Yes, I have caught ... this section are from Samvelian (2007), unless stated otherwise: (33) lebâs-e zibâ dress-ez beautiful'the beautiful dress' (34) lebâs-e maryam dress-ez ...
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