E. Coghill. The rise and fall of ergativity in Aramaic. Cycles of alignment change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxii, 381 p. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 21.) ISBN 978-0-19-872380-6.


2017. №6, 140-149

Peter M. Arkadiev
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation;
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 125993, Russian Federation;
peterarkadiev@yandex.ru

Keywords
review article
Aramaic
diachronic cycles
ergativity
Semitic
syntactic alignment