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Title: | Origin and Development of the Indo-Aryan Quotatives and Complementizers: An Areal Approach |
Author(s): | Marlow, Patrick Edward |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Hock, Hans Henrich |
Department / Program: | Linguistics |
Discipline: | Linguistics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Language, Linguistics |
Abstract: | In this thesis I use a dialectological approach to linguistic convergence and areal linguistics to investigate the degree to which Indo-Aryan complementizers and quotatives can be attributed to outside influences (Persian and Dravidian, respectively) or internal developments. I determine that Persian influence is responsible for the spread of complementizers throughout much of Indo-Aryan. However, the initial development of relative complementizers and deictic quotatives must be seen as internal to Indo-Aryan. The development of verbal quotatives is less clear. On the basis of the available data, I conclude that a combination of forces is necessary to account for all of the forms found in Indo-Aryan. In brief, I argue that while a Dravidian source must be acknowledged for those Indo-Aryan languages in direct contact with Dravidian, the distribution of forms in the remaining Indo-Aryan languages with verbal quotatives and the speed of spread necessary to account for their development is more consistent with an internal analysis. |
Issue Date: | 1997 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 178 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82665 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9737189 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 1997 |
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