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The history of Indo-European languages: alignment change as a clue

Toyota, Junichi LU (2009) p.331-340
Abstract
In this paper, the history of IE languages is studied in terms of alignment change. What is significant in this change is the emergence of transitivity as a basic grammatical operational system. However, there are varying degrees of transition to transitivity-based system, especially between semantic and syntactic transitivity. It is argued that these degrees of transition create differences in grammatical structures among IE languages.
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Early European Languages in the Eyes of Modern Linguistics
editor
Loudová, Kateřina and Žáková, Marie
pages
331 - 340
publisher
Masaryk University
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  • wos:000277572100029
ISBN
978-80-210-4944-4
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English
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yes
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  author       = {{Toyota, Junichi}},
  booktitle    = {{Early European Languages in the Eyes of Modern Linguistics}},
  editor       = {{Loudová, Kateřina and Žáková, Marie}},
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  pages        = {{331--340}},
  publisher    = {{Masaryk University}},
  title        = {{The history of Indo-European languages: alignment change as a clue}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5694519/1710536.pdf}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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