Optionele ergatieve naamvalsmarkering in Hindi
| dc.contributor.advisor | Lestrade, S.A.M. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hoop, H. de | |
| dc.contributor.author | Piepers, J. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-05-19 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Indo-Aryan language Hindi displays a case-patterning split along the lines of aspect: ergative case is assigned to the subject of highly transitive verbs only in perfective aspect. In addition, some intransitive verbs allow for ergative case marking on their subject as well. When the subject of an intransitive verb is marked with ergative case, this indicates that the action was performed deliberately (Mohanan, 1994; Butt, 2001; Bhatt, 2005). This paper aims to provide a possible explanation for the optional ergative case marking on certain intransitive subjects in Hindi. Since some, but not all intransitive verbs can be passivized (Davison, 1982; Bhatt, 2003; Richa, 2008), it is possible that the reanalysis that underlies the ergative clause in Hindi never took place for these verbs, which may be why some intransitive verbs allow for ergative case marking on their subject, and others do not. The ergative construction in Hindi is the result of a development at an earlier stage of the Indo-Aryan languages. Due to the loss of the inflectional perfect, a periphrastic passive construction was used to refer to completed events, and it was reanalysed as an active, perfective, ergative-patterning construction (Anderson, 1977; Butt, 2001). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2440 | |
| dc.language.iso | nl | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Letteren | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Bachelor Taalwetenschap | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Bachelor Taalwetenschap | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Bachelor | en_US |
| dc.title | Optionele ergatieve naamvalsmarkering in Hindi | en_US |
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