This article addresses the variable alignment properties of experiencer constructions in Indo-Aryan (IA) languages in the light of the available historical data fromVedic Sanskrit onwards. The... Show moreThis article addresses the variable alignment properties of experiencer constructions in Indo-Aryan (IA) languages in the light of the available historical data fromVedic Sanskrit onwards. The first aimof the article is to shed light on the possible historical sources, emergence andexpansionof constructionswithnon-cnonicallymarkedarguments inOld IA ingeneral.The second aimis to gain abetterunderstanding of the variation in case marking and agreement patterns that can be attested in New IA experiencer constructions, given that the interplay among morphological cases, semantic roles and additional semantic motivations poses many unsolved questions. Show less
