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The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in proto-indo-European : accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment

Roland Pooth (UGent) , Peter Kerkhof (UGent) , Leonid Kulikov (UGent) and Jóhanna Barðdal (UGent)
(2019) INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN. 124(1). p.245-263
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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 (Barodal, Bjarnadottir, et al. 2013; Danesi, Johnson & Barodal 2017).
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ERGATIVITY, GREEK, Proto-Indo-European, alignment systems, argument structure, non-nominative subjects, morphophonology, ergativity, converse lability

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Pooth, Roland, et al. “The Origin of Non-Canonical Case Marking of Subjects in Proto-Indo-European : Accusative, Ergative, or Semantic Alignment.” INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, vol. 124, no. 1, 2019, pp. 245–63, doi:10.1515/if-2019-0009.
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Pooth, R., Kerkhof, P., Kulikov, L., & Barðdal, J. (2019). The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in proto-indo-European : accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment. INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, 124(1), 245–263. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2019-0009
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Pooth, Roland, Peter Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, and Jóhanna Barðdal. 2019. “The Origin of Non-Canonical Case Marking of Subjects in Proto-Indo-European : Accusative, Ergative, or Semantic Alignment.” INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN 124 (1): 245–63. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2019-0009.
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Pooth, Roland, Peter Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, and Jóhanna Barðdal. 2019. “The Origin of Non-Canonical Case Marking of Subjects in Proto-Indo-European : Accusative, Ergative, or Semantic Alignment.” INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN 124 (1): 245–263. doi:10.1515/if-2019-0009.
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Pooth R, Kerkhof P, Kulikov L, Barðdal J. The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in proto-indo-European : accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment. INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN. 2019;124(1):245–63.
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R. Pooth, P. Kerkhof, L. Kulikov, and J. Barðdal, “The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in proto-indo-European : accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment,” INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, vol. 124, no. 1, pp. 245–263, 2019.
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