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The history of Indo-European languages: alignment change as a clue

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Author

  • Junichi Toyota

Editor

  • Kateřina Loudová
  • Marie Žáková

Summary, in English

In this paper, the history of IE languages is studied in terms of alignment change. What is significant in this change is the emergence of transitivity as a basic grammatical operational system. However, there are varying degrees of transition to transitivity-based system, especially between semantic and syntactic transitivity. It is argued that these degrees of transition create differences in grammatical structures among IE languages.

Department/s

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

331-340

Publication/Series

Early European Languages in the Eyes of Modern Linguistics

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Masaryk University

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-80-210-4944-4