Project

The Evolution of Case, Alignment and Argument Structure in Indo-European

Acronym

EVALISA

Code

41Y07813

Duration

01 October 2013 → 30 September 2018

Funding

European funding: framework programme

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies

Keywords

Indo-European German English Greek Italian Latin Dutch Eastern European languages Romanian Russian Swedish Late Antiquity Middle Ages Antiquity Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age) Comparative Quantitative Language and text analysis Asia Belgium Central Europe Northern Europe Eastern Europe Western Europe Southern Europe Linguistics

Project description

The project EVALISA aims to investigate case marking and argument structure from a historical perspective, or more precisely non-nominative case marking of subjects. focusing on its development through the history of the indo-European languages. One of the products emerging from the project is an electronically searchable database of predicates taking non-nomitave subject marking, available to the research community at large