The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change
The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change
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阿拉姆语中作格的兴衰：排列变化的周期
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723806.001.0001
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2016
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Eleanor
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Coghill;Eleanor
这本书追溯了阿拉姆语在其3000年的历史记载中发生的争论对齐的变化。东方阿拉姆语方言首先发展了完成体中的时态条件作格排列，后来发展成过去完成体。然而，虽然一些现代方言保留了一定程度的作格对齐，但它已经被语义/分裂S对齐的运动以及对患者使用单独的标记所侵蚀，一些方言已经完全失去了作格对齐。因此，这些方言显示了一个完整的排列变化周期，这在以前被认为是不可能的。Eleanor Coghill研究了来自古代阿拉姆语文本，最近的方言文献和跨语言相似之处的证据，以提供这种对齐变化发生的途径。她认为，作格构式最初主要限于具有体验者角色的动词，如“see”和“hear”，它们可以用与格来编码体验者。虽然这种“受戒者-体验者”的情景与其他对取向变化的解释有一些形式上的相似之处，但本书分析的数据表明，它显然是不同的。本书对时态条件对齐的跨语言发展做出了重要的理论结论，并为进一步的研究提供了有价值的基础。
This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense-conditioned ergative aligment in the perfect, which later developed into a past perfective. However, while some modern dialects preserve a degree of ergative aligment, it has been eroded by movement towards semantic/Split-S alignment and by the use of separate marking for the patient, and some dialects have lost ergative alignment altogether. These dialects therefore show an entire cycle of alignment change, something which had previously been considered unlikely. Eleanor Coghill examines evidence from ancient Aramaic texts, recent dialectal documentation, and cross-linguistic parallels to provide an account of the pathways through which this alignment change took place. She argues that what became the ergative construction was originally limited mostly to verbs with an experiencer role, such as' see'and'hear', which could encode the experiencer with a dative. While this dative-experiencer scenario shows some formal similarities with other proposed explanations for alignment change, the data analysed in this book show that it is clearly distinct. The book draws important theoretical conclusions on the development of tense-conditioned alignment cross-linguistically, and provides a valuable basis for further research.