Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective
Edited by Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stroński
[Typological Studies in Language, 112] 2016. v, 267 pp.
Krzysztof Stroński
List of John Benjamins publications for which Krzysztof Stroński plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2021 Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology, Dahl, Eystein (ed.), pp. 457–501 | Article
Non-finite forms constitute an important component of the verbal system of Indo-Aryan (IA) languages. On the one hand, some of them, such as e.g., converbs, have already received proper attention in historical linguistics and typological literature, with regard to Old Indo-Aryan (OIA), Middle… read more
2019 Chapter 20. A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old Rajasthani Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 423–442 | Chapter
This paper presents the results of a multilayered diachronic analysis of one of the most important subordinating devices in IA, i.e. converbs. This is a corpus-oriented study based on an early variety of New Indo-Aryan, namely Old Rajasthani. We discuss: (a) the morphology of the converb and the… read more
2016 Ergativity in Indo-Aryan and beyond Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 1–38 | Article
This chapter gives an overview of the current state of the art of research on ergativity in Indo-Aryan. First, it discusses a number of theoretical and terminological issues concerning synchronic and diachronic dimensions of ergative alignment and outlines a typology for exploring the relationship… read more
2016 Syntactic lability vs. ergativity in Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 237–258 | Article
Contemporary IA languages are considered to be purely nominative at the level of syntax. Ergativity is restricted to the morphological domain. However the scrutiny of certain syntactic constructions such as converbal clause chaining or coordinate conjunction reduction shows that they are not… read more