Search Results for: Alignment And Ergativity In New Indo Aryan Languages

The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan goes beyond the oppositi

This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduct

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fas

This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual langua