From Indo-European to Latin
The evolution of a morphosyntactic type
This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the paradigmatic-flectional stage (or (sub)type). This development is demonstrated in Latin, a language characterized by highy developed inflection, which attests, especially by its verbal system, an alternative way of paradigmatizing the original structure, differing from Old Indian and Greek on which traditional reconstruction was based.
The notion of derivative-flectional type is used to try to penetrate to the original form and historical sources of the IE flectional type without presupposing radical typological change between Proto-IE and IE. The author's view differs from the traditional theory of prehistoric change in IE structure (from isolation to flection via agglutination) in that she assumes the origins of flection lie in lexico-derivative categorization.
The book is divided into three parts: 1. The Origins and Evolution of the Indo-European Flectional Type 2. The Basic Principles and Origins of the Nominal System and Inflections 3. The Indo-European Origins of the Latin Verbal System.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 104] 1993. xiv, 259 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Part 1. The origins and revolution of the Indo-European flectional type: the derivational type of Indo-European and paradigmatic-flectional type of Latin
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1.1 Introduction | p. 3
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1.2 The nominative-accusative structure of Indo-European | p. 15
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1.3 Main characteristics of the derivative-flectional and paradigmatic-flectional types | p. 23
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Part 2. The basic principles and origins of the nominal system and inflections
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2.1 Introduction | p. 49
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2.2 Animate and inanimate noun classes | p. 61
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2.3 The category of number | p. 69
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2.4 The case system | p. 77
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2.5 Remarks on Latin paradigmatization | p. 97
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2.6 Conclusions | p. 103
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Part 3. The Indo-European origins of the Latin verbal system
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3.1 Introduction | p. 107
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3.2 The active and inactive verb clauses | p. 115
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3.3 Inactive and perfect | p. 143
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3.4 Inactive and middle-passive | p. 157
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3.5 Thematic -e/o- suffix and long vocalic suffixes | p. 173
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3.6 Sigmatic forms of the Latin present and perfect systems | p. 181
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3.7 Latin imperfect in -bam and future in -bō | p. 187
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3.8 Conclusions | p. 191
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Summary | p. 191
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Notes | p. 195
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Index | p. 233
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