The paper deals with the diachrony of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan with special reference to Hindi/Urdu. Starting from the acknowledgement of ergativity as a typologically atypical feature among the family of Indo-European languages and as specific to the Western group of Indo-Aryan speeches, I first show that such an evolution has been central to the Romance languages too and that non ergative Indo-Aryan languages have not ignored the structure but at certain point went further along the same historical logic as have Roman languages. I will then propose an analysis of the structure as a predication of localization similar to other stative predications (mainly with “dative” subjects) in Indo-aryan, supporting this claim by an a...
Careful analysis of auxiliary occurrence in Hindi/ Urdu perfective and imperfective clauses suggests...
This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following...
A split-ergative construction had developed during the late MIA period (Bubenik 1998; Peterson 1998)...
The paper deals with the diachrony of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan with special referen...
The paper aims at linking the historic evolution of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan (with ...
The paper aims at linking the historic evolution of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan (with ...
The paper aims at linking the historic evolution of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan (with ...
The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation ...
International audienceThe paper aims at explaining the contradictions in early classifications of In...
Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan languages is a very intricate phenomenon. At the morphological level, w...
A reflection on ergativity in Modern and Middle Indo-Aryan languages It is generally accepted in lin...
Indo-Aryan languages are often described as ergative or split-ergative. The article investigates the...
Ergativity in Indo-Aryan languages has been a much-discussed issue for a long time. Not only has erg...
International audienceHindi transitive verbs, contrary to Bengali verbs, require the ergative struct...
New Indo-Aryan languages are characterized by accusative (DOM) objects in ergative, perfective claus...
Careful analysis of auxiliary occurrence in Hindi/ Urdu perfective and imperfective clauses suggests...
This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following...
A split-ergative construction had developed during the late MIA period (Bubenik 1998; Peterson 1998)...
The paper deals with the diachrony of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan with special referen...
The paper aims at linking the historic evolution of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan (with ...
The paper aims at linking the historic evolution of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan (with ...
The paper aims at linking the historic evolution of the past and perfect system in Indo-Aryan (with ...
The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation ...
International audienceThe paper aims at explaining the contradictions in early classifications of In...
Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan languages is a very intricate phenomenon. At the morphological level, w...
A reflection on ergativity in Modern and Middle Indo-Aryan languages It is generally accepted in lin...
Indo-Aryan languages are often described as ergative or split-ergative. The article investigates the...
Ergativity in Indo-Aryan languages has been a much-discussed issue for a long time. Not only has erg...
International audienceHindi transitive verbs, contrary to Bengali verbs, require the ergative struct...
New Indo-Aryan languages are characterized by accusative (DOM) objects in ergative, perfective claus...
Careful analysis of auxiliary occurrence in Hindi/ Urdu perfective and imperfective clauses suggests...
This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following...
A split-ergative construction had developed during the late MIA period (Bubenik 1998; Peterson 1998)...