This thesis concerns languages in the Greater Hindukush, the area in northern Afghanistan and Pakistan, where a total of about 50 languages are spoken. The thesis’ topic is case systems and case alignment systems of nouns in an areal-typological perspective. This is investigated by using a representative sample. The grammatical relations of S, A and P, and the cases marking these, are investigated. The three attested alignment systems are accusative, ergative and split, and are clearly geogra-phically distributed, which indicates that their status is areal-typological. Based on the sample, there seems to be a tendency for the languages in the Greater Hindukush to exhibit split align-ment systems built on tense-aspect. Most languages employ ...
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eas...
Alignment differences in two Rajasthani languages, Marwari and Harauti, illustrate the distinct func...
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo-European linguistics has been the iss...
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range...
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range...
Surrounding the Hindukush mountain chain is a stretch of land where as many as 50 distinct languages...
Surrounding the Hindukush mountain chain is a stretch of land where as many as 50 distinct languages...
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range...
The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khybe...
The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khybe...
The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khybe...
We discuss variation in the appearance of the ‘ergative’ case in Bumthang, a Bodic language of centr...
The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation ...
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eas...
By tracing and comparing the corpus from the 1960s to the present, we have found that the case marki...
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eas...
Alignment differences in two Rajasthani languages, Marwari and Harauti, illustrate the distinct func...
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo-European linguistics has been the iss...
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range...
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range...
Surrounding the Hindukush mountain chain is a stretch of land where as many as 50 distinct languages...
Surrounding the Hindukush mountain chain is a stretch of land where as many as 50 distinct languages...
The Hindukush Indo-Aryan (‘Dardic’) languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a great range...
The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khybe...
The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khybe...
The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khybe...
We discuss variation in the appearance of the ‘ergative’ case in Bumthang, a Bodic language of centr...
The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation ...
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eas...
By tracing and comparing the corpus from the 1960s to the present, we have found that the case marki...
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eas...
Alignment differences in two Rajasthani languages, Marwari and Harauti, illustrate the distinct func...
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo-European linguistics has been the iss...