TY - BOOK AU - Harris,Alice C. TI - Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case T2 - Syntax and Semantics SN - 9789004373143 AV - P1 U1 - 415 23 PY - 1985/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - BRILL KW - Kartvelian languages N1 - Preliminary Material -- The Problem -- Theory and Method -- Synchronic Case Marking -- Reconstruction of Case Morphology -- Series II Predates Series I -- Reconstruction of Series II Case Marking -- An Account of the Development of Series I -- Ablaut -- The Origin of Series Markers -- The Plural Agreement Marker -en -- Case Marking in the Object Demotion Construction -- The Picture That Emerges -- Inversion and the Origins of Series III and IV -- Ergative to Active: The Mechanism of Change in Georgian -- Case Changes Resulting from the Ergative-to-Active Shift -- Concomitants of Change -- Case Alignment: Diachrony and Synchrony -- References -- Index -- Syntax and Semantics UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004373143 ER -