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Bibliography on Ergativity in Indo-Aryan

(di Andrea Drocco)

(still under construction - updated 31/12/2015) 

Abadie, P. 1974. ‘Nepali as an ergative language’, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 1.156-177.

Ahmed, T. 2006. ‘Spatial, Temporal and Structural Uses of Urdu ko’. Talk at the Workshop on “Case and Aspect in South Asian

Languages”, LFG06, Konstanz. An updated handout on this topic is presented at Universität Stuttgart in January 2007.

     2007a. ‘Unaccusativity and Underspecification in Urdu’. Talk at the Conference on “Theoretical and Computational Perspectives on

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     2007b. ‘Ablative, Sociative and Instrumental Case Markers’. Talk at the Conference of  “Language and Technology”, Peshawar.

     2008a. ‘Non-Canonical Objects in South Asian languages’. Talk at the Workshop on “Case and Alignment in Indo-European”,

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     2008b. ‘Non-Canonical Object marking in Nepali and Manipuri’. Talk at the “14th Himalayan Languages Symposium”, Gothenburg.

     2008c. ‘Spatial Sources of Structural Case’. Talk at the Workshop on “A Non-Canonical Perspective on Case”, Konstanz.

     2008d. ‘NCTV in Urdu/Hindi and Nepali’. Talk at the Workshop on “Transitivity and Case Alternations”, Stuttgart.

Aikhenvald, A. Y., Dixon, R. M. W., and Onishi, M. (eds.) 2001. Non- Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects. Amsterdam: John

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Andersen, P. K. 1986b. ‘Die ta-Partizipialkonstruktion bei Aśoka: Passiv oder Ergativ?’, Zeitschrift fur Vergleichende Sprachforschung 

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Anderson, S. R. 1977. ‘On mechanism by which languages become ergative’, in Li, C. (ed.), 317-363.

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Bennett, D., Bynon, T., and Hewitt, G. (eds.) 1995. Subject, Voice and Ergativity. Selected essays. London: School of Oriental and

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Bisang, W. 1996. ‘Areal typology and grammaticalization: processes of grammaticalization based on nouns and verbs in East and

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     1993a. ‘Morphological and Syntactic Change in Late Middle Indo-Aryan’, Journal of Indo-European Studies 21.259-281.

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Bubenik V. & Paranjape, C. 1996. ‘Development of Pronominal Systems from Apabhraṃśa to New Indo-Aryan’, Indo-Iranian

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Butt, M. & Ahmed, T. 2007. ‘Non-Canonical Argument Marking: Beyond Volitionality, Specificity and Animacy’. Talk at the Workshop

on “Case, Word Order and Prominence in Argument Structure”, Nijmegen.

Butt, M. & King, T. 1991. ‘Semantic case in Urdu’, Papers from the Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 27.31-45.

Butt, M. & Poudel, T. 2007. ‘Distribution of the Ergative in Nepali’. Universität Leipzig, Leipzig.

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     2008b. ‘Case: A Semantic System’. Talk at the “SFB 471 International Colloquium”, Konstanz.

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Bynon, T. 1979. ‘The Ergative Construction in Kurdish’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 42.211-224.

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Durbin, M. 1979. ‘Ergativity and antipassive in Gujarati’, South Asian Language Analysis (Papers from annual meeting) 1.169-192.

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