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

我们将研究施事突出在旧指示分词形式向主句核心发展的初始阶段所起的作用。我们将追踪现在主动分词和结果式形式从一个非常名词性的功能范围发展到成熟的主从句谓词的过程。我们的研究将包括根据选定的语义和句法标准进行数据收集和注释，目标是动词语义(静态或(动态)事件编码)以及A-和O-论元的作用。

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.