Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family

by Dahl, Eystein

• ISBN13: 9780198857907
• ISBN10: 019885790X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-11-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Eystein Dahl, Research Associate, Department of Language and Culture, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Eystein Dahl is a Research Associate in the Department of Language and Culture at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. He has previously held positions at the University of Bergen, and at Goethe University in Frankfurt. His primary research interests lie in the interface between comparative
philology and diachronic typology, and much of his recent work focuses on tense/aspect semantics, alignment typology, and morphosyntactic change in Vedic Sanskrit, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Hittite.

Table of Contents

1. Alignment and alignment change in the Indo-European family and beyond, Eystein Dahl
2. Alignment in Proto-Indo-European, Eystein Dahl
3. Split-alignment, mixed alignment, and non-canonical argument marking in some archaic Indo-European languages, Paola Cotticelli and Eystein Dahl
4. The origin of ergative case markers: The case of Hittite revised, Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese (with an appendix by Petra Goedegebuure)
5. Passives and anticausatives in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives, Hans Henrich Hock
6. Non-nominative arguments, active impersonals, and control in Latin, Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio
7. Infinitives and subjecthood between Latin and Old Italian, Claudia Fabrizio
8. Alignment changes with Spanish experiential verbs, Chantal Melis
9. Armenian morphosyntactic alignment in diachrony, Robin Meyer
10. Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic, Ilja A. Seržant, Björn Wiemer, Eleni Bužarovska, Martina Ivanová, Maxim Makartsev, Stefan Savić, Dmitri Sitchinava, Karolína Skwarska, and Mladen Uhlik