Screen LibraryAlignment change in Iranian languages：a construction grammar approach
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Mouton de Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Empirical approaches to language typology ; 37 |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 366 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9783110195866 (hbk.) 3110195860 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | H730 |
| CLC: | H730.4 |
| Call Number: | H730.4/H149 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-358) and index. 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. |