Alignment shift in Bartangi: parameterizing ergativity

titleAlignment shift in Bartangi: parameterizing ergativity
start_date2024/01/17
schedule16h-17h30
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location_infoSalle 124
summaryThis talk explores morphosyntactic alignment in Bartangi, an Eastern Iranian language. Earlier sources show tripartite alignment in the past tense, however my field data show the shift to full nominative-accusative alignment. As this development is reasonably common among Iranian languages, it is needed to develop a theory of ergative case which easily derives this shift. These talk explores several prominent approaches to ergative case assignment: DCT (Marantz 1991), (Baker 2015), ergative-as-inherent (Woolford 2006) and my own lexicon-driven approach.
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