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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778597603321

Titolo

Grammatical change in Indo-European languages [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-24525-2

9786612245251

90-272-8929-8

Descrizione fisica

xx, 262 p. : ill

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

BubeníkVít <1942->

HewsonJohn <1930-2022.>

RoseSarah (Sarah R.)

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Indo-European languages - Grammar, Historical

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.