Subject, Voice and Ergativity
Author: N Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1135751897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Ergativity, Valency and Voice
Author: Gilles Authier
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 3110227738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.
The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
Author: Jessica Coon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 1297
ISBN-13: 0198739370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the phenomenon of ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. It includes theoretical approaches from generative, typological, and functional paradigms, as well as 16 language-specific case studies.
Mermaid Construction
Author: Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 3110670879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides detailed studies of the crosslinguistically unusual mermaid construction in seventeen languages of Asia, including Modern Standard Japanese, and one language of Africa. This construction appears to be absent in languages of Europe, Oceania and the Americas. The name - mermaid construction - alludes to its paradoxical make-up, where the structure closely resembling a verb-predicate clause ends with what may look like a noun-predicate clause. Superficially it looks biclausal; however, syntactically it is monoclausal. It has a compound predicate which contains an independent noun, a clitic or an affix derived from a noun, or a nominalizer. Its compound predicate has a modal, evidential, aspectual, temporal, stylistic or discourse-related meaning. The paradox is resolved from a diachronic perspective insofar as a biclausal structure is reanalyzed as a monoclausal one. This volume shows how a noun may be reanalyzed to become a constituent of a predicate. It constitutes an important contribution to research on grammaticalization and in particular, the grammaticalization of nouns and more generally, to the typology of syntactic reanalysis.
Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic
Author: Paul M. Noorlander
Publisher: Studies in Semitic Languages a
Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9789004448179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a comprehensive study of constructional splits and alignment typology, especially ergativity, as found in the Neo-Aramaic languages spoken in the Mesopotamian region of West Asia.
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Author: K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 866
ISBN-13: 0700712860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Ergativity
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-06-02
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521448987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable difficulties for many current linguistic theories. R. M. W. Dixon here provides a full survey of the various types of ergativity, looking at the ways they interrelate, their semantic bases and their role in the organisation of discourse. Ergativity stems from R. M. W. Dixon's long-standing interest in the topic, and in particular from his seminal 1979 paper in Language. It includes a rich collection of data from a large number of the world's languages. Comprehensive, clear and insightful, it will be the standard point of reference for all those interested in the topic.
Ergativity
Author: Alana Johns
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-02-05
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781402041877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe overarching theme of this volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The book contains cutting-edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Languages investigated in the text include Basque, Georgian, and Hindi.
Voice and Mood (Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar)
Author: David L. Mathewson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2021-10-26
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1493420526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA recognized expert in Greek grammar examines two features of the Greek verb: voice and mood. Drawing on his years of teaching experience at a leading seminary, David Mathewson examines these two important topics in Greek grammar in light of modern linguistics and offers fresh insights. The book is illustrated with examples from the Greek New Testament, making it an ideal textbook for the intermediate Greek classroom. This is the first volume in a new series on Greek grammar edited by Stanley E. Porter.
Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages
Author: Alireza Korangy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-10-21
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 3110604442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Iranian languages are one of the world's major language families. With an estimated 150 to 200 million native speakers, these languages constitute the western group of the larger Indo-Iranian family, which represents a major eastern branch of the Indo-European languages. Geographically, the Iranian Languages are spoken from Central Turkey, Syria and Iraq in the West to Pakistan and western edged of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China in the east. Iranian languages have long been among the major interests of the philologists and general linguists, and European scholars have made tremendous contributions to the study of this language family. In light of such efforts, now we know that the Iranian languages can be historically divided into three phases, that are old, middle and new Iranian languages, and the new Iranian languages may be generally grouped as Eastern and Western. In recent years, the orientation towards typology has led to the appearance of somewhat more ponderance on the subject but the work has not included description of some of the very important languages of the Caspian, and or of the religious minorities (such as those of the Zoroastrians or the Jewish community), of the four-fold Central Plateau dial.
