The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European: Accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment

R Pooth, PA Kerkhof, L Kulikov… - Indogermanische …, 2019 - degruyter.com
For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo-European linguistics has
been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state …

Non-nominative subjects in Latin and Ancient Greek

J Barðdal, E Cattafi, S Danesi, L Bruno… - Indogermanische …, 2023 - degruyter.com
This article responds to a call for research, made by Hock (1990) more than 30 years ago,
on the subject behavior of potential non-nominative subjects in the early Indo-European …

[图书][B] The Indo-European Languages

M Kapović, AG Ramat, P Ramat - 2017 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual
languages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred …

Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language

S Danesi, CA Johnson, J Barðdal - Indogermanische Forschungen, 2017 - degruyter.com
The “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages is most likely inherited
from Proto-Indo-European (Hettrich 1990). Two recent proposals (Danesi 2013; Luraghi …

Alignment Change and the Emergence of the Thematic Conjugation from Proto‐Indo‐European to Indo‐European: A Wedding of Hypotheses

R Pooth, V Orqueda - Transactions of the Philological Society, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Our paper addresses the reconstruction of the Proto‐Indo‐European (PIE) case and
alignment system and questions the hypothesis that PIE had nominative‐accusative …

Position as a behavioral property of subjects

EL Mair, CA Johnson, M Frotscher… - Indogermanische …, 2017 - degruyter.com
A subject analysis of oblique subject-like arguments remains controversial even across
modern languages where the available data are not finite: while such arguments are …

Indo-European Inroads into the Syntactic-Etymological Interface: A Reconstruction of the PIE verbal root *menkʷ- 'to be short; to lack' and its …

M Frotscher, G Kroonen, J Barðdal - Historische Sprachforschung, 2020 - vr-elibrary.de
In this article we report a previously unidentified verbal root for the Indo-European
protolanguage,* menkʷ-'to be short; to lack', based on verbal and nominal reflexes in Italic …

Oblique anticausatives: A morphosyntactic isogloss in Indo-European

J Barđdal, L Kulikov, R Pooth… - Poznan Studies in …, 2020 - degruyter.com
The goal of this article is to introduce to the field a particular subtype of valency-reducing
strategies, referred to as oblique anticausativization below. This subtype differs from more …

Il medio indoeuropeo: nascita e storia di una categoria

R Meneghel - 2015 - iris.univr.it
Cos' è il 'Medio'? Lo scopo di questa tesi è indagare l'origine e la storia della categoria
verbale del Medio Indoeuropeo, osservando le differenti definizioni del termine 'medio'ei …

Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns

G Carling, C Cathcart - Diachronica, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
This paper employs phylogenetic modeling to reconstruct the alignment system of Indo-
European. We use a data set of categorical morphosyntactic features, which take states such …