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Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- In memoriam Kjartan Ottosson -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin -- 1. The development of the Latin verbal system -- 2. The future tenses in conditional clauses -- 3. The present tense in conditional clauses -- 4. The past tenses in conditional clauses -- 4.1 Early and Classical Latin -- 4.2 In Late Latin -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The subjunctive in classical MP -- 3. Vestiges of the subjunctive in late MP/Pahlavi -- 4. Alternatives to subjunctive mood in late MP/Pahlavi -- 4.1 Future -- 4.2 Subordinate clause as complement of the main clause verb -- 4.3 Subordinate clauses with adverbial status -- 4.4 Conditionals -- 4.5 Summary -- 5. Conclusions -- 6. Abbreviations -- Corpus -- Manichaean Middle Persian (MMP) -- Late Middle Persian texts (9th and 10th century Pahlavi books) -- References -- The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages: Aspectual and modal meanings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interaction between negation and imperative modality -- 3. The principal meanings of the negated imperative -- 3.1 Prohibitive meaning -- 3.2 Preventive meaning -- 4. Inverse imperatives -- 5. Summary -- References -- Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminary considerations -- 1.2 Sources of tense, aspect and mood markers in Australian languages -- 1.3 Aims and organisation of paper -- 2. Verbal sources of Aktionsart markers -- 3. Verbal sources of aspect derivational morphology -- 4. Verbal sources of mood inflections -- 5. Verbal sources of tense (and aspect) inflections -- 6. Conclusions -- References.
Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. TAM in counterfactuals - some data from a parallel corpus -- 3. Two different fake imperfectives -- 4. In mood for chess: the counterfactual imperfective -- 5. The anaphoric past (in French) -- 6. The competition perspective -- 7. From the factual to the counterfactual imperfective in Russian -- 8. Towards a principled explanation for the emergence of the fake imperfective -- 8.1 Case 1: "came" vs. "came and left" -- 8.2 Case 2: factual vs. counterfactual outcome -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic -- 1. Synthetic markers -- 2. Canonic periphrastic modal constructions -- 3. Non-canonical periphrastic modal constructions -- 4. Distribution -- 5. Modal agreement constructions -- 6. Examples -- Volition -- Necessity -- Possibility -- 7. The role of language contact -- Glosses -- References -- Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A diachronic and comparative perspective -- 3. Vulgar Latin and Romance languages -- 4. The role of ante-preterit in a tense system -- 5. Modal uses of the pluperfect -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Subjects and objects with Latin habere and some of its Romance descendants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Late Latin -- 3. Ibero-Romance -- 4. Habere as a pseudo-transitive -- 5. Three uses of habere -- 6. Conclusion -- Corpus -- References -- Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Algonquian family and Cree dialects -- 3. Cree verbal morphology -- 4. Cree nominal and verbal morphology: parallels in inflection and derivation -- 4.1 Parallels in person inflection -- 4.2 Possession/obviation -im -- 4.3 Possession/obviation -iyi- -- 4.4 Dubitative on noun -- 4.5 Locative on verb.
4.6 -(i)sk-, repeated action -- 4.7 -is diminutive ( 'do something a little bit') -- 4.8 -ipan 'deceased'/preterit -- 4.9 -iwi-/-iwin, -ikê-/ikan, -ihkê-/ihkân -- 4.10 Other forms in other Algonquian languages -- 4.11 Summary: morphological parallels between verbs and nouns -- 5. Semantic categories in the Algonquian verb: prefixes and suffixes -- 5.1 Person -- 5.2 Aspectual reduplications: durative and iterative -- 5.3 Aspect/tense: the preterits -- 5.4 Preverbal TAM elements -- 5.5 Evidentiality: dubitative suffix -- 5.6 Subordinators (and aspect?) -- 5.7 Conclusions -- 6. More on ordering: adpositions, instrumental affixes and relative roots -- 6.1 Prepositions and postpositions -- 6.2 Demonstratives -- 6.3 Position of the instrumental affixes -- 6.4 Relative roots -- 6.5 Stem structure -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7. Typology and areas -- 8. Discussion -- 8.1 A linguistic reconstruction -- 8.2 Historical scenario -- 9. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Typological change in Vedic: The development of the Aorist from a perfective past to an immediate past -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical prerequisites -- 3. The Vedic data -- 3.1 Chronological overview -- 3.2 The Early Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 3.3 The Early Middle Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 3.4 The Middle Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 3.5 The Late Vedic Aorist Indicative -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- On the evolution of verbal aspectin insular Celtic -- 1. Tense and aspect in common Celtic and early Irish -- 2. The emergence of an introspective aspectual formation -- 2.1 The development of an introspective passive -- 3. The emergence of a retrospective formation -- 3.1 The retrospective passive -- 4. The emergence of a prospective aspect -- 4.1 The prospective passive -- 5. The expression of contingent states -- 6. Cognitive basis of the system.
7. The motivation for the emergence of periphrastic aspects -- 7.1 The pattern of emergence -- 8. The functional expansion of the periphrastic aspects -- 8.1 The expansion of the introspective -- 8.2 Functional expansion of the retrospective -- 8.3 From contingent state to classification -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- The anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anticausative ("inchoative") na-verbs in the Germanic languages -- 2.1 Gothic na-verbs - anticausative rather than "inchoative" -- 2.2 na-verbs in North Germanic -- 2.3 "Inchoative" na-verbs - presumably a Germanic inheritance -- 3. Middles - anticausative and otherwise -- 3.0 Overview -- 3.1 The Gothic reflexive construction - not quite Middle voice -- 3.2 The Old Nordic Middle voice -- 3.3 The Old High German reflexive construction (Middle) -- 3.4 Other West Germanic languages -- 3.5 Some conclusions on na-verbs and Middles in the Old Germanic languages -- 4. "Inchoative" na-verbs, Middle, "Detransitives" as expressions of anticausative content -- 5. Anticausative detransitives and some other valence-changing devices across Germanic -- 5.0 Overview -- 5.1 Gothic -- 5.2 Old Nordic -- 5.3 Old High German -- 5.4 The other (Old) West Germanic languages, represented by Old English -- 5.5 Some conclusions on ja-causatives and detransitives -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Directionality, case and actionality in Hittite -- 1. Local adverbs/adpositions, clitics, and case -- 2. Semantics of local adverbs/adpositions -- 3. Hittite local adverbs/postpositions/preverbs -- 4. Local/directional clitics, local adverbs, and verbs of motion -- 5. Comparative semantics of Hittite and Latin local adverbs, adpositions, and preverbs -- 5.1 Adverbs/postpositions/preverbs of approach -- 5.2 Local adverbs of distancing function (éloignement). Latin de and ab.
5.3 Exit -- 5.4 Descendant and ascendant directionality -- 5.5 Entry -- 6. Internal location -- 7. External location -- 7.1 extra -- 7.2 prae/post -- 8. Below, above: sub, super -- 9. Adverbs/postpositions of intermediate location -- 10. Motion past and across -- 11. Clitics and case -- 12. Hittite -kan/-san and Luvian -tta/-tar -- 13. Final remarks -- References -- The case of unaccusatives in Classical Portuguese -- Introduction -- 1. Unaccusativity -- 2. The case of unaccusatives in Modern Portuguese -- 3. The data from Classical Portuguese -- 4. Conclusion -- Corpus -- References -- Some historical developments of the verb in Neo-Aramaic -- 1. Ergativity and the past perfective -- i. Split conditioned by the tense/aspect of the verb -- ii. Split conditioned by the semantic nature of the verb -- 2. The development of the active participle -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
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Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Folke Josephson
