Agent prominence and the diachrony of predication in Indo-Aryan (B03)

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We will study the role of agent prominence in the initial phase of the development of Old Indicparticipial forms into main clause nuclei. We will trace both present active participles and resultativeta-forms in their development from a very ¿nouny¿ functional range into full-fledged main clausepredicators. Our study will involve data collection and annotation according to selected semantic andsyntactic criteria targeted at the interplay of verb semantics (stative or (dynamic) event-encoding) andthe role of A- and O-arguments.