Browsing by Author "Tokaj, Joanna"

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    A comparative study of participles, converbs and absolute constructions in Hindi and Medieval Rajasthani
    (2017-05-13) Tokaj, Joanna; Stroński, Krzysztof; De Clercq, Eva
    The PRO coindexation of converbs and participles in South Asian Languages along with Subject Identity Constraint (Subject Control) violation has been studied by Subbarao (2012) and Murthy (1994). I present the analysis of Medieval Rajasthani data focusing on two construction types – constructions consisting of converbs and participles. I compare my findings on Rajasthani with previous analyses of the Hindi language. I demonstrate that PRO coindexation in Medieval Rajasthani is more strict than in Hindi. Participles are coindexed with a subject or a direct object of the main clause while converbs are most often subject-oriented. Subject Identity Constraint (Subject Control) violation in Medieval Rajasthani (MR) occurs in constructions consisting of participles and converbs. Subject Identity Constraint may be violated in MR in sentences denoting cause and effect and time relation.
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    Diachrony and typology of non-finites in Indo-Aryan
    (Wydział Neofilologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 2020) Stroński, Krzysztof; Tokaj, Joanna; Jaworski, Rafał
    The present work provides a corpus-based analysis of various non-finite forms such as converbs, adverbial participles and infinitives appearing over the course of time in early New Indo-Aryan languages. It focuses on morphosyntactic properties of non-finites giving insights into the development of their forms and functions. To give a more detailed picture of the non-finite categories, main argument marking, control properties and scope of selected operators were analysed in order to trace the process of formation of clause linkage devices. The theoretical foundation was partly based on two models, i.e. Role and Reference Grammar and Multivariate Analysis. The corpus comprises early New Indo-Aryan texts from several dialectal groups, such as Early Rajasthani, Early Awadhi, Early Braj, Early Dakkhini and Early Pahari which were tagged by means of a newly developed tool IATagger.