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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 165] — John Benjamins Publishing Company (October 15, 1998), Amsterdam/Philadelphia — 289 pp. This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its syntax in the direction of the New Indo-Aryan analytic type. This study concentrates on the emergence and development of the ergative construction in terms of the passive-to-ergative reanalysis and the co-existence of the ergative construction with the old and new analytic passive constructions. Special attention is paid to the actuation problem seen as the tug of war between conservative and eliminative forces during their development. Other chapters deal with the evolution of grammatical and lexical aspect, causativization, modality, absolute constructions and subordination. This study is based on a wealth of new data gleaned from original poetic works in Apabhramśa (by Svayambhādeva, Puspadanta, Haribhadra, Somaprabha et al.). It contains sections dealing with

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Author

Bubeník Vít.

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company BEBC Distribution [distributor

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027236708

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Language Learning