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 / edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, Sarah Rose.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bubeník, Vít, 1942-

Hewson, John, 1930-2022.

Rose, Sarah (Sarah R.)

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (18th : 2007 : Montréal, Québec)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 305

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

Indo-European languages.

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xx, 262 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: an old problem in a new perspective / Silvia Luraghi

The animacy fallacy: cognitive categories and noun classification / Maria M. Manoliu

Default, animacy, avoidance: diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents / Hans Henrich Hock

The early development of animacy in Novgorod: evoking the vocative anew / Kyongjoon Kwon

The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties / Inés Fernández-Ordóñez

Strategies of definiteness in Latin: implications for early Indo-European / Brigitte L.M. Bauer

The rise and development of the possessive in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian / Vit Bubenik

Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? or local adverbs?: and what's the difference anyway? / Dag T. Haug

On the origin of the Slavic aspects: questions of chronology / Henning Andersen

The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: verbal adjective or past passive participle? / Bridget Drinka

Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis of Germanic / John Hewson

The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite Ti/mi conjugations / Sarah R. Rose

The origin of the oblique-subject construction and Indo-European comparison / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson

Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on the syntax / Azam Estaji

Possessive subjects, nominalization, and ergativity in North Russian / Hakyung Jung

On the grammaticalization of *kwi-/kwo- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European / Eugenio R. Luján

Formal correspondences, different functions: on the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European / José Luis García Ramón.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245251

9781282245259

1282245252

9789027289292

9027289298

OCLC:

460637561