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On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central AsiaEdited by Pirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley
[Studies in Language Companion Series 164] 2014
► pp. 133–174
A survey of alignment features in the Greater Hindukush with special references to Indo-Aryan
Henrik Liljegren | Stockholm University
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range of variation in alignment patterns. The diversity is primarily evidenced in the case-marking of core argument noun phrases and verbal person marking properties. Along these parameters, six distinct alignment types emerge, each, in combination with language-specific developments, reflecting contact-induced changes that can be attributed to three significant areas or subareas that conflate in the region: first, a large Persian-dominated area overlapping with the Western part of the region, characterized by overt patient marking; second, an area in the East with e.g. ancient Tibetan influences, characterized by overt agent marking; and third, an area in the South bordering on the influential Hindi-Urdu belt, stretching over large parts of the Indian Subcontinent, characterized by patient agreement in the perfective.
Keywords: accusative, agent, alignment, areal, case, contact-induced change, Dardic, ergative, grammatical relations, Hindukush, Indo-Aryan, language diversity, patient
Published online: 17 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.164.05lil
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.164.05lil
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