Diachrony of differential argument marking
Ilja A. Serant, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (editors)
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Diachrony of differential argument marking
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(Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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About this book
While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.
About Ilja A. Serant
Ilja A. Serant is a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at Leipzig University. He holds a PhD in both General Linguistics and Historical-Comparative Indo-European linguistics. He worked on DAM within his project The Diachronic Typology of Differential Argument Marking at University of Konstanz (2013-2015).
About Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich is an assistant professor at the Department of General Linguistics of Kiel University. Her PhD thesis on The typological variations of grammatical relations treated the phenomenon of DAM from the comparative perspective and elaborated a set of variables required to capture the variation of DAM systems cross-linguistically. She co-authored a nuber of papers on various aspects of DAM both within case marking and within agreement.
Chapters
Differential argument marking
Patterns of variation
Differential object marking in Chichewa
The evolution of differential object marking in Alor-Pantar languages
Spanish indexing DOM, topicality, and the case hierarchy
From suffix to prefix to interposition via Differential Object Marking in Egyptian-Coptic
Verbal semantics and differential object marking in Lycopolitan Coptic
A diachronic perspective on Differential Object Marking in pre-modern Japanese
Nominal and verbal parameters in the diachrony of differential object marking in Spanish
Emergence of optional accusative case marking in Khoe languages
The rise of differential object marking in Hindi and related languages
The diachronic development of Differential Object Marking in Spanish ditransitive constructions
Structural case and objective conjugation in Northern Samoyedic
Differential A and S marking in Sumi (Naga)
Differential subject marking and its demise in the history of Japanese
The emergence of differential case marking
Reassessing scale effects on differential case marking
