Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages

Bubenik, Vit [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages : Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007 / ed. by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2009. - xx, 250 S. - (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science ; Series IV: Current issues in linguistic theory ; 305)
ISBN 978-90-272-4821-3
EUR 105,00
-- Angekündigt für Juli 2009 --

Beschreibung
The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Editors' Foreword. ix
My memories of Carol Justus. xix
PART I. GENDER, ANIMACY AND NUMBER
    1. Silvia Luraghi: The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective. 3
    2. Maria M. Manoliu: The animacy fallacy: Cognitive categories and noun classification. 15
    3. Hans Henrich Hock: Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents. 29
    4. Kyongjoon Kwon: The early development of animacy in Novgorod: Evoking the vocative anew. 43
    5. Inéz Fernández-Ordóñez: The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties. 55
PART II. DEFINITENESS, CASE AND PREPOSTIONS
    6. Brigitte L.M. Bauer: Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European'. 71
    7. Vit Bubenik: The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian. 89
    8. Dag T. Haug: Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? (and what's the difference anyway?). 103
PART III. TENSE/ASPECT AND DIATHESIS
    9. Henning Andersen: On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronology. 123
    10. Bridget Drinka: The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle? 141
    11. John Hewson: Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis in Germanic. 159
    12. Sarah Rose: The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite -hi/-mi conjugations. 169
PART IV. MORPHOSYNTAX
    13. Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson: The origin of the oblique-subject-construction: An Indo-European comparison. 179
    14. Azam Estaji: Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntax. 195
    15. Hakyung Jung: Possessive subjects, nominalization and ergativity in North Russian. 207
    16. Eugenio R. Luján: Grammaticalization processes of relative clauses in ancient Indo-European languages. 221
PART V. RECONSTRUCTION OF INFLECTIONAL CATEGORIES IN INDO-EUROPEAN
    17. J.L. Garcia-Ramon: Formal correspondences, different functions: On the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European. 237
Author Index. 251
Index of languages and dialects. 255
Index of subject. 259

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