The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Indogermanische Forschungen Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI:10.1515/IF-2019-0009

Roland Pooth, P. A. Kerkhof, L. Kulikov, Jóhanna Barđdal

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Abstract

Abstract For a long time one of the most bewildering conundrums of Indo- European linguistics has been the issue of how to reconstruct the alignment system of this ancient language state, given the lack of distinction between s and o marking in the Proto-Indo-European neuter nouns and the problem of the Hittite ergative. An additional complication stems from the existence of argument structure constructions where the subject(-like) argument is marked in a different case than the nominative, like the accusative or the dative. Our aim with the present article is to fill two needs with one deed and offer a unified account of this century-long bone of contention. In contribution to the ongoing discussion in the field, we claim that a semantic alignment system, in the terms of Donohue & Wichmann (2008), might not only fit better with the morphological data that are currently reconstructed for the ancestral language, but also with the existence of non-canonically case-marked subjects in general (Barðdal, Bjarnadóttir, et al. 2013; Danesi, Johnson & Barðdal 2017).

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原始印欧语中主语非规范格标记的起源

摘要长期以来，印欧语言学最令人困惑的难题之一是，鉴于原始印欧中性名词中s和o标记之间缺乏区别，以及赫梯作格的问题，如何重建这种古老语言状态的对齐系统。一个额外的复杂性源于论点结构的存在，其中主语（-样）论点与主格（如宾格或与格）标记在不同的格中。我们写这篇文章的目的是用一件事来满足两种需要，并对这一长达一个世纪的争论焦点提供一个统一的描述。为了促进该领域正在进行的讨论，我们声称，根据Donohue和Wichmann（2008）的说法，语义对齐系统可能不仅更适合当前为祖先语言重建的形态数据，但也存在一般的非经典格标受试者（Barğdal，Bjarnadóttir，et al.2013；Danesi，Johnson&Barğdal 2017）。

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