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

我们将研究施事突显在旧引词分词形式发展为主句核心的初始阶段中所起的作用。我们将追溯现在主动分词和结果式从一个非常小的功能范围发展到完整的主句谓语的过程。我们的研究将涉及数据收集和注释，根据选定的语义和句法标准，针对动词语义（静态或（动态）事件编码）的相互作用和A-和O-参数的作用。

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.