How Long to Read The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic by Eleanor Coghill

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense-conditioned ergative aligment in the perfect, which later developed into a past perfective. However, while some modern dialects preserve a degree of ergative aligment, it has been eroded by movement towards semantic/Split-S alignment and by the use of separate marking for the patient, and some dialects have lost ergative alignment altogether. These dialects therefore show an entire cycle of alignment change, something which had previously been considered unlikely. Eleanor Coghill examines evidence from ancient Aramaic texts, recent dialectal documentation, and cross-linguistic parallels to provide an account of the pathways through which this alignment change took place. She argues that what became the ergative construction was originally limited mostly to verbs with an experiencer role, such as 'see' and 'hear', which could encode the experiencer with a dative. While this dative-experiencer scenario shows some formal similarities with other proposed explanations for alignment change, the data analysed in this book show that it is clearly distinct. The book draws important theoretical conclusions on the development of tense-conditioned alignment cross-linguistically, and provides a valuable basis for further research.

How long is The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic?

The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic by Eleanor Coghill is 404 pages long, and a total of 102,616 words.

This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic aloud.

What Reading Level is The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic?

The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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