Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology
Edited by Eystein Dahl
Special issue of Diachronica 38:3 (2021) v, 199 pp.
Eystein Dahl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Eystein Dahl is involved.
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Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective
Edited by Eystein Dahl and Krzysztof Stroński
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 introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field, plus seven papers about the origin,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 112] 2016. v, 267 pp.
2022 Continuity and change in the aspect systems of Vedic and Latin Development of Tense and Aspect Systems, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.), pp. 179–198 | Chapter
2021 Pathways to split ergativity: The rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology, Dahl, Eystein (ed.), pp. 413–456 | Article
This paper reassesses the rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan, two branches of the Indo-European linguistic family. Both of these branches acquire split-ergative morphosyntax in the course of their history but via different grammaticalization paths and with different results.… read more
2021 Introduction to the special thematic section: Perspectives on alignment change Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2, pp. 209–213 | Introduction
2021 Introduction: Aspects of Alignment Change Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology, Dahl, Eystein (ed.), pp. 303–313 | Introduction
2020 Continuity and change in the aspect systems of Vedic and Latin Development of tense and aspect systems, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.), pp. 325–345 | Article
This paper examines the development of the aspect systems in the Indo-European languages Vedic and Latin. Even though aspectual distinctions are central in the verbal systems of both of these languages at the beginning of their attested traditions, they undergo quite different developments in… read more
2020 Chapter 7. The synthetic perfect from Indo-Iranian to Late Vedic Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 245–278 | Chapter
This paper outlines the origin and development of the synthetic Perfect from Indo-Iranian, the reconstructed common ancestral stage of the Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages, to Vedic, the oldest attested stage of Old Indo-Aryan. Comparative evidence from Old Iranian, Homeric Greek and a number of… read more
2016 The origin and development of the Old Indo-Aryan predicated -tá construction Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 61–108 | Article
This paper pursues the development of the predicated -tá construction through the different stages of Vedic. In the earliest stage of the language, this construction represents a predicated, p-oriented verbal adjective, which subsequently develops into a passive, that in turn evolves into an… read more
2016 Ergativity in Indo-Aryan and beyond Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 1–38 | Article
This chapter gives an overview of the current state of the art of research on ergativity in Indo-Aryan. First, it discusses a number of theoretical and terminological issues concerning synchronic and diachronic dimensions of ergative alignment and outlines a typology for exploring the relationship… read more
2014 The Morphosyntax of the Experiencer in Early Vedic Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Article
This paper examines the encoding of Experiencer arguments in Early Vedic, the earliest attested stage of Indo-Aryan. Although Experiential predicates show a broad variety of case-marking patterns in this language, the Experiencer is primarily expressed by the nominative, the accusative or the… read more
2013 Typological change in Vedic: The development of the Aorist from a perfective past to an immediate past Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 261–298 | Article
The Vedic aorist indicative presents a classic case of the development from aspect to tense. In Early Vedic, the aorist indicative has properties typical of perfective past categories cross-linguistically, whereas in later stages of Vedic it is primarily, if not exclusively used to express that a… read more
2011 Review of Windfuhr (2009): The Iranian Languages Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 299–304 | Review
2009 Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of object alternation in Early Vedic The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 23–55 | Article
In Early Vedic, the earliest attested stage of Indo-Aryan, many two-place verbs allow their object argument to be alternately expressed by two or more case categories, i.e., they show object alternation. In this paper I examine three different object alternation patterns and show that they have… read more