Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs / edited by Folke Josephson, Ingmar Söhrman, University of Gothenburg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Josephson, Folke, editor.

Söhrman, Ingmar, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 134.

Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) ; volume 134

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Historical linguistics.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

viii, 443 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1

2 On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin p. 13 / Gerd V.M. Haverling

3 The\fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian p. 57 / Judith Josephson

4 The\negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages p. 79 / Nadezhda Zorikhina Nilsson

5 Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages p. 107 / William B. McGregor

6 Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses p. 133 / Atle Grønn

7 On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic p. 159 / Lars Johanson

8 Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages p. 173 / Ingmar Söhrman

9 Subjects and objects with Latin habere and some of its Romance descendants p. 211 / Birte Stengaard

10 Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic) p. 223 / Peter Bakker

11 Typological change in Vedic p. 261 / Eystein Dahl

12 On the evolution of verbal aspect in insular Celtic p. 299 / Ailbhe Ó Corráin

13 The\anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languages p. 329 / Kjartan G. Ottósson

14 Directionality, case and actionality in Hittite p. 383 / Folke Josephson

15 The\case of unaccusatives in Classical Portuguese p. 411 / Kristine Gunn Eide

16 Some historical developments of the verb in Neo-Aramaic p. 425 / Geoffrey Khan

17 Contributors p. 435

18 Index p. 437.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027206015

9027206015

OCLC:

837578332