Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective.

Intro -- Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Ergativity in Indo-Aryan and beyond -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typological aspects of ergativity -- 3. Ergative patterns in the Indo-Aryan languages -- 3.1 Classification of the IA languages -- 3.2 Ergative constructions in contemporary IA -- 4. The origin and development of the ergative construction in IA -- 4.1 The predicated -tá construction in Early Vedic -- 4.2 The predicated -tá construction in OIA, IIR and PIE -- 4.3 The evolution of the source construction -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Looking for ergativity in Indo-Aryan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ergative and accusative patterns in Modern Indo-Aryan -- 3. The influence of referential hierarchies -- 3.1 Referentiality of O -- 3.2 Referentiality of A -- 4. Tense/Aspect/Mood splits -- 5. On the early attestations of ergativity -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- The origin and development of the Old Indo-Aryan predicated -tá construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some general definitions and typological considerations -- 3. Alignment in Vedic Sanskrit and the synchronic status of the -tá participle -- 3.1 Alignment in Vedic Sanskrit -- 3.2 The morphosyntactic properties of the Early Vedic past participle -- 4. The development of the OIA -tá construction -- 4.1 Early Middle Vedic -- 4.2 Middle Vedic -- 4.3 Late Vedic -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- On the establishment of ergative alignment during the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period -- 1. Late MIA as the crucial period for the establishment of ergative alignment -- 2. The appearance of the absolutive case with nouns and the double-oblique system with pronouns -- 3. The demise of the old aspectual forms -- 4. 'Contingency view' of ergative alignment.

5. The ergative reorganization of Indo-Aryan -- 6. Conclusions and desiderata for further research -- Editions of primary literature -- References -- Why the ergative case in modal (in)transitive clauses? The historical evolution of aspect, modality, ergative and locative in Indo-Aryan -- Introduction -- 1. Ergative alignments in Indo-Aryan: The passive verbal adjective as a predication of location -- 1.1 "Pre-ergative" alignments in Indo-Aryan: -- 1.2 Benveniste's theory of the possessive meaning of perfect -- 1.3 Further evolution of past systems in IA -- 2. Modal future -- 2.1 The data up to early New-Indo-Aryan -- 2.2 Kuryłowicz theory of the parallel between past (perfect) and future (modal) -- 2.3 Indo-Aryan modal future -- 3. Case markers: From a syncretic locative to new localizing words -- 3.1 The old morphological case: A locative -- 3.2 Postpositional new ergative case -- 4. Case alternations (DAT/ERG) in modal statements -- 4.1 Modalities with a predicate formally related to the old verbal adjective -- 4.2 With predicates unrelated to the old -tavya passive participle -- Conclusion -- References -- Ergative alignment in Western New Indo-Aryan languages from a historical perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The source and stimulus of the development of the ergative in late OIA and MIA -- 3. The first stage of decline of the ergative in early NIA (14th-17th cent.) -- 3.1 Splitting of the consistently ergative case marking system into ergative and neutral -- 3.2 Retention of the ergative type of verbal agreement in Early NIA -- 3.3 Retention of the main implications of ergative morphology in Early NIA -- 4. The second stage of decline of the ergative (intermediate Western NIA: 17th-18th cent.) -- 4.1 Development of accusative and tripartite case marking systems -- 4.2 Splits in the verbal agreement system.

5. The third stage of decline of the ergative (Modern Western NIA: 19th-20th cent.) -- 5.1 Divergent development of case marking systems -- 5.2 Verbal concord in Modern Western NIA -- 5.3 The changing place of the ergative construction in the perfective domain of Modern Western NIA -- 6. Controlling properties of NPs in the course of historical development of Western NIA -- 7. The semantics of ergative alignment -- 8. Conclusion -- Referred texts -- References -- The restoration of the ergative case-marking of 'A' in perfective clauses in New Indo-Aryan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The emergence of the ergative-absolutive system in Indo-Aryan -- 3. The development of the ergative-absolutive system in New-Indo-Aryan -- 4. The history of the postposition ne as ergative case-marker -- 5. The use of ne as ergative case-marker in Braj-bhāṣā prose -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The ergative-absolutive system of early Braj-bhāṣā prose -- 5.3 The distribution of ergative case-marking in late Braj-bhāṣā prose -- 5.4 The variability of ne as ergative case-marker in late Braj-bhāṣā prose -- 6. Summary -- 7. Conclusion -- Texts -- References -- Syntactic lability vs. ergativity in Indo-Aryan -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Pivots -- 2.1 Simple tests for syntactic ergativity -- 2.2 OIA and MIA -- 2.3 Early NIA -- 3. S/O pivot in Early NIA? -- 4. S/O pivot in contemporary NIA -- 5. Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- Primary sources -- References -- Index of Languages -- General Index -- Author Index.

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