Oblique case-marking in Indo-Aryan experiencer constructions: historical roots and synchronic variation

• Saartje Verbeke ^[1] ; Leonid Kulikov ^[1] ; Klaas Willems ^[1]
  1. [1] Ghent University

     Ghent University

     Arrondissement Gent, Bélgica

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 163, 2015, págs. 23-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article addresses the variable alignment properties of experiencer constructions in Indo-Aryan (IA) languages in the light of the available historical data from Vedic Sanskrit onwards. The first aim of the article is to shed light on the possible historical sources, emergence and expansion of constructions with non-canonically marked arguments in Old IA in general. The second aim is to gain a better understanding of the variation in case marking and agreement patterns that can be attested in New IA experiencer constructions, given that the interplay among morphological cases, semantic roles and additional semantic motivations poses many unsolved questions