The history of Indo-European languages: alignment change as a clue
Författare
Redaktör
- Kateřina Loudová
- Marie Žáková
Summary, in English
In this paper, the history of IE languages is studied in terms of alignment change. What is significant in this change is the emergence of transitivity as a basic grammatical operational system. However, there are varying degrees of transition to transitivity-based system, especially between semantic and syntactic transitivity. It is argued that these degrees of transition create differences in grammatical structures among IE languages.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
331-340
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Early European Languages in the Eyes of Modern Linguistics
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Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Masaryk University
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-80-210-4944-4