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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xx, 262 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Indo-European languages - Grammar, Historical; Linguistics
• Altri autori: BubeníkVít <1942-> HewsonJohn <1930-2022.> RoseSarah (Sarah R.)
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Grammatical change in Indo-European languages
• ISBN: 1-282-24525-2; 9786612245251; 90-272-8929-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812372003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II