Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family
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- ISBN 9780198857907
- Weight: 824g
- Dimensions: 164 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.
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.
