35.1434, Books: Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian: Meyer (2024)

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Date: 25-Apr-2024
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian: Meyer (2024)


Title: Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian
Subtitle: The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/iranian-syntax-in-cl
assical-armenian-9780198851097?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=list
serv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author: Robin Meyer
Hardback: ISBN: 9780198851097 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 115.00
Abstract:

This book draws on a detailed corpus analysis of fifth-century
historiographical texts to explore the influence of the Iranian
languages on the syntax of Armenian. While contact between the Iranian
languages - particularly Parthian - and Armenian has been a fertile
field of research for several decades, its effects on syntax have to
date been somewhat neglected. Here, Robin Meyer argues that the
Armenian periphrastic perfect construction with its unusual
morphosyntactic alignment was created on the model of similar
constructions in Parthian, along with a number of other syntagms.
Unlike previous accounts, the language contact model presented in this
book can explain all the idiosyncrasies of the construction, as well
as its diachronic developments. The study also offers new insights
into the historical social dynamics between Armenian and Parthian
speakers, and suggests that the Parthians, who were the ruling class
in the Armenian Kingdom for almost four centuries, eventually
abandoned their native language.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)



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