ИСТИНА

Indo-Aryan languages demonstrate a rather rare type of syntactic evolution: moving first from nominative-accusative towards ergative and then back towards nominative-accusative alignment. Most probably this type of typological development triggered the violation of some typological universals. This paper examines the violation of four typological universals in Marwari - an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 13.2 million people mainly in the Indian state of Rajasthan. This research is based on prose texts in Marwari of the 14th -20th centuries as well as on the field work in Rajasthan.