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
Editors
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 305] 2009. xx, 262 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 July 2009
Published online on 21 July 2009
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Editors' Foreword | pp. ix–xviii
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My memories of Carol Justus | pp. xix–xx
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Section A. Gender, animacy and number
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The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspectiveSilvia Luraghi | pp. 3–13
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The animacy fallacy: Cognitive categories and noun classificationMaria M. Manoliu | pp. 15–28
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Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedentsHans Henrich Hock | pp. 29–42
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The early development of animacy in Novgorod: Evoking the vocative anewKyongjoon Kwon | pp. 43–53
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The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varietiesInés Fernández-Ordóñez | pp. 55–68
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Section B. Definiteness, case and prepostions
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Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-EuropeanBrigitte L.M. Bauer | pp. 71–87
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The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in AlbanianVit Bubenik | pp. 89–101
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Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? (And what's the difference anyway?)Dag T.T. Haug | pp. 103–120
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Section C. Tense/aspect and diathesis
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On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronologyHenning Andersen | pp. 123–140
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The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle?Bridget Drinka | pp. 141–158
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Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis in GermanicJohn Hewson | pp. 159–167
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The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite hi/mi conjugationsSarah Rose | pp. 169–176
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Section D. Morphosyntax
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The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparisonJóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 179–193
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Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntaxAzam Estaji | pp. 195–206
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Possessive subjects, nominalization and ergativity in North RussianHakyung Jung | pp. 207–220
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On the grammaticalization of *kw i-/kw o- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European:Eugenio R. Luján | pp. 221–234
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Section E. Reconstruction of inflectional categories in Indo-European
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Formal correspondences, different functions: On the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-EuropeanJosé Luis Garcia-Ramon | pp. 237–250
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Author index | pp. 251–253
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Index of languages and dialects | pp. 255–257
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Index of subjects | pp. 259–262
“C'est un volume d'une très grande qualité qui nous est ici proposé. Dans le monde actuel [...] on est souvent submergé d'articles écrits à la hâte et qui n'apportent rien de nouveau. Tel n'est pas le cas ici. On ne saurait trop conseiller la lecture de ce bel ouvrage à tous les collègues intéressés par la linguistique historique.”
Daniel Petit, in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, Tome 105/2, 2010
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General