LEADER 04310nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910782776003321 005 20230524231318.0 010 $a1-282-19455-0 010 $a9786612194559 010 $a3-11-019878-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110198782 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691518 035 $a(EBL)364726 035 $a(OCoLC)437233379 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000162371 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153546 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162371 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200061 035 $a(PQKB)11789062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364726 035 $a(DE-B1597)34624 035 $a(OCoLC)979969294 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110198782 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364726 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256688 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219455 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691518 100 $a20070306d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Germanic strong verbs $efoundations and development of a new system /$fRobert Mailhammer 210 1$aBerlin ;$aNew York :$cMouton de Gruyter,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;$v183 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-019957-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[234]-253) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tChapter one. Introduction and preliminaries --$tChapter two. Systematized and functionalized ablaut: The morphology of the Germanic strong verbs --$tChapter three. Inheritance vs. acquisition: The etymological situation of the Germanic strong verbs --$tChapter four. Conclusion and further thoughts --$tBackmatter 330 $aAs a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology. It reveals that the morphological peculiarities and the etymological problems of the strong verbs have been considerably underestimated. The first part of the book explains how drastically the inherited verb system was transformed when it was uniformized and simplified around a functionalized verbal ablaut. In particular, it is shown that the systemic position of ablaut is typologically different from that in the verb morphology of the Indo-European parent language. Moreover, the origin of the lengthened grade preterits and other well-known morphological problems of the strong verbs are discussed. After developing a methodological framework, the second part of the book presents a quantitative analysis of the etymological situation of the strong verbs. It demonstrates that the etymological relations of the strong verbs are significantly less clear than commonly assumed, as almost half of them have no accepted etymology. A comparative quantification of the primary verbs of Sanskrit and Ancient Greek, both of which possess much better etymological connections within the Indo-European language family, underlines the significance of the Germanic data and the validity of the analytical framework. Taken together, the investigations presented in this book put the Germanic strong verbs in a new and markedly different light. Their largely obscure etymological situation in combination with their far-reaching morphological restructuring has telling implications for the prehistory of the Germanic languages and suggests new pathways for future research. 410 0$aTrends in linguistics.$pStudies and monographs ;$v183. 606 $aGermanic languages$xVerb 606 $aGermanic languages$xMorphology 606 $aProto-Germanic language 610 $aGermanic languages, historical linguistics. 615 0$aGermanic languages$xVerb. 615 0$aGermanic languages$xMorphology. 615 0$aProto-Germanic language. 676 $a435/.6 700 $aMailhammer$b Robert$f1975-$0599394 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782776003321 996 $aThe Germanic strong verbs$93804056 997 $aUNINA