Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology

Special issue of Diachronica 38:3 (2021)

Editor

Eystein Dahl | UiT – The Arctic University of Norway / Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt

[Diachronica, 38:3] 2021. v, 199 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 September 2021

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.38.3

Table of Contents

Introduction: Aspects of Alignment Change

Eystein Dahl | pp. 303–313

Articles – Aufsätze

Two types of alignment change in nominalizations: Austronesian and Japanese

Edith Aldridge & Yuko Yanagida | pp. 314–357
Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns

Gerd Carling & Chundra Cathcart | pp. 358–412
Pathways to split ergativity: The rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan

Eystein Dahl | pp. 413–456
Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan

Krzysztof Stroński & Leonid Kulikov | pp. 457–501

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative