Transitivity and aspect in Sahidic Coptic : studies in the morphosyntax of native and Greek-origin verbs / Nina Speransky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speransky, Nina, author.

Series:

Lingua aegyptia. Studia monographica ; 0946-8641 Band 26.

Database and dictionary of Greek loanwords in Coptic. Working Papers ; 2.

Lingua Aegyptia. Studia monographica, 0946-8641 ; Band 26

DDGLC working papers ; 2

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Sahidic dialect--Grammar.

Sahidic dialect.

Coptic language--Foreign words and phrases--Greek.

Coptic language.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 218 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hamburg : Widmaier Verlag, 2022.

Language Note:

Includes a summary in German.

Summary:

Transitivity and Aspect in Sahidic Coptic' consists of three studies united by the common topic of voice alternations in Sahidic. Having established that the Coptic verbal system is based on split causativity (for the term see Kulikov L.I., "Split causativity: remarks on correlations between transitivity, aspect, and tense"), the work introduces the concept of an aspect-transitivity grid, in which the unmarked infinitival form is ascribed the voice-aspect meaning according to the conjugation pattern it appears in. The work establishes a correlation between the morphosyntactic properties of verbs and their semantic properties, such as lexical aspect and agentivity. Chapter 2 explores the formal and semantic properties of the periphrastic circumstantial construction. Voice marking phenomena in Greek-origin verbs are examined in chapter 3. The results obtained in this study may be further used in language contact research, as well as in general and typological linguistics.

Notes:

Thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-204) and index.

ISBN:

9783943955262

3943955265

OCLC:

1363551197

Publisher Number:

9783943955262