B03 - Agent prominence and the diachrony of predication in Indo-Aryan
We will study the role of agent prominence in the initial phase of the development of Old Indic participial forms into main clause nuclei. We will trace both present active participles and resultative ta-forms in their development from a very 'nominal' functional range into full-fledged main clause predicators. Our study will involve data collection and annotation according to selected semantic and syntactic criteria targeted at the interplay of verb semantics and the role of A- and O-arguments.
Team
Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl
Principal Investigator B03
Office: Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgE-Mail: uta.reinoehl(at)linguistik.uni-freiburg.de Phone: (+49) 761 203-3165
Dr. Antje Casaretto
Postdoc B03
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.10E-Mail: antje.casaretto(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89906
Simon Fries
Student assistant B03
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.10E-Mail: simon.fries(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89906
Thomas Laurs
Student assistant B03
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.10E-Mail: tlaurs(at)smail.uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89906
Publications
To appear
- Casaretto, Antje. To appear. Präpositionale Rektionskomposita im Gotischen. In Nathalie Rousseau & Michiel de Vaan (eds.), Between composition and derivation: Prepositional governing compounds in the older Indo-European languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2024
- Reinöhl, Uta & Mark Ellison. 2024. Metaphor forces argument overtness. Linguistics.
2021
- Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 2021. The comparative method and language change in accretion zones: A view from the Nuba Mountains. In Na’ama Pat-El, Patience Epps & Danny Law (eds.), Historical linguistics and endangered languages: Exploring diversity in language change, 155–181. London: Routledge.
2020
- Casaretto, Antje. 2020. On secondary predicates in Vedic Sanskrit – Syntax and semantics. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 17. 1–63. pdf
- Casaretto, Antje, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Birgit Hellwig, Uta Reinöhl & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2020. Roots of ergativity in Africa (and beyond). Studies in African Linguistics 49(1). 111–140.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2020. Continuous and discontinuous nominal expressions in flexible (or “free") word order languages – Patterns and correlates. Linguistic Typology 24(1). pdf
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2020. What are and what aren’t complex nominal expressions in flexible word order languages. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 73(1). 57–79. pdf
2019
- Kiss, Börge, Daniel Kölligan, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl & Patrick Sahle. 2019. It takes a village: Co-developing VedaWeb, a digital research platform for old Indo-Aryan texts. In Steven Krauwer & Darja Fišer (eds.), Twin Talks: Understanding collaboration in DH. Fourth Digital Humanities Conference in the Nordic countries 2019 (DHN2019), 35-44. pdf
2018
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2018. Review of Eystein Dahl & Krzysztof Stroński (eds.). 2016. Indo-Aryan ergativity in typological and diachronic perspective. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 5(1). 111-121. pdf
- Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto. 2018. When grammaticalization does NOT occur - Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan. Diachronica 35(2). 238-276. pdf
2017
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Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2017. Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? Language 93(2). 381-413. pdf