Vit Bubenik

List of John Benjamins publications for which Vit Bubenik plays a role.

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Typology
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Other Indo-European languages | Syntax
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Typology
Subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
This paper focuses on the long-term grammaticalization of tense/aspect systems in the West Iranian languages, beginning with Old Iranian (Section 1). In Middle Persian (Section 2) the Aorist and the reduplicative Perfect of Old Persian were replaced by a new system of analytic constructions. The… read more
Bubenik, Vit 2019 Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb systemPerspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 193–204 | Chapter
The present article contributes to the current theoretical discussions regarding the issues of grammaticalization, degrammati(calizati)on and reanalysis as practiced by scholars working predominantly in West European, Greek and Slavic languages. It brings into discussion relatively… read more
I will argue that the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period (7–11th c.) was the crucial period for the establishment of ergative alignment as known from contemporary West Indo-Aryan languages (Bubenik 1998). I will demonstrate that the syncretism of case leading to the appearance of the absolutive case in… read more
In this paper I will attempt to reconstruct the (Late) PIE syntax of experiential constructions for three classes of verbs: in (1) and (2) for verbs of cognition and perception, in (3) verbs denoting changes in bodily states, and in (4) verbs of deontic and epistemic modality. In (5) I will make… read more
Estaji, Azam and Vit Bubenik 2007 On the development of the tense/aspect system in Early New and New PersianDiachronica 24:1, pp. 31–56 | Article
The unique documentation of the Iranian family of languages provides a rare opportunity to study the development of a verbal system over the span of several millennia. We argue that the rise of the Early New Persian aspectual type was a consequence of the loss of ergative typology, examining the… read more
Bubenik, Vit 2006 AlbanianFrom Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 304–316 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit 2006 TocharianFrom Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 317–333 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit 2006 ArmenianFrom Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 160–177 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit 2006 From Old to Modern SlavicFrom Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 178–204 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit and John Hewson 2006 ConclusionsFrom Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 357–383 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit and John Hewson 2006 Baltic LanguagesFrom Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 205–225 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit 2000 Was Proto-Romani an ergative language?Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 205–228 | Article
Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 7: The Verbal System of TocharianTense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 125–141 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit 1997 Object doubling in Romani and the Balkan languagesThe Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 95–106 | Article
Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 13: From Ancient to Modern GreekTense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 249–264 | Chapter
Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 6: The Verbal System of AlbanianTense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 103–124 | Chapter
Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik 1997 Chapter 19: ConclusionsTense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 351–364 | Chapter
Hübschmannová, Milena and Vit Bubenik 1997 Causatives in Slovak and Hungarian RomaniThe Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article
Bubenik, Vit 1996 Toward a Theory of Syntactic ChangeDiachronica 13:1, pp. 155–170 | Article
SUMMARY The Theory of Functional Grammar (S. C. Dik 1989) does not recognize explicitly the INFLECTIONAL type in addition to the FREE PRONOUN, CLITIC and APPOSITIONAL types. On the basis of data from a number of IE and non-IE languages, this paper presents cogent evidence for its recognition. It is… read more
SUMMARY This paper investigates three problems related to the phenomenon of split ergativity in several Indo-Iranian languages. (1) In ergative tenses Pashto and Kashmiri belong to the canonical ergative-absolutive type — irrespective of the definiteness of the nominal P(atient) — while Sindhî and… read more