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This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. The chapters have a strong empirical focus, drawing on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic.
List of contents
- 1: Eystein Dahl: Alignment and alignment change in the Indo-European family and beyond
- 2: Eystein Dahl: Alignment in Proto-Indo-European
- 3: Paola Cotticelli and Eystein Dahl: Split-alignment, mixed alignment, and non-canonical argument marking in some archaic Indo-European languages
- 4: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese (with an appendix by Petra Goedegebuure): The origin of ergative case markers: The case of Hittite revised
- 5: Hans Henrich Hock: Passives and anticausatives in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
- 6: Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio: Non-nominative arguments, active impersonals, and control in Latin
- 7: Claudia Fabrizio: Infinitives and subjecthood between Latin and Old Italian
- 8: Chantal Melis: Alignment changes with Spanish experiential verbs
- 9: Robin Meyer: Armenian morphosyntactic alignment in diachrony
- 10: Ilja A. Seržant, Björn Wiemer, Eleni Bužarovska, Martina Ivanová, Maxim Makartsev, Stefan Savi¿, Dmitri Sitchinava, Karolína Skwarska, and Mladen Uhlik: Areal and diachronic trends in argument flagging across Slavic
About the author
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.
Summary
This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. The chapters have a strong empirical focus, drawing on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic.
