Grammaticalization and the rise of configurationality in Indo-Aryan

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Author(s): Reinöhl, Uta
Series: Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics 20.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 234
Tags: Indo-Aryan languages -- Syntax;Indo-Aryan languages -- Syntax -- History;Indo-Aryan languages -- Postpositions -- History

Grammaticalization and configurationality --
The diverse origins of the Indi simple postpositions --
Local particles : the unique source of adpositions and configurationality in Indo-European? --
The components of the source constructions --
The origin of the postpositional syntagm --
From group to phrase --
Paradigmatization : a process sui generis?