Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages
Vit Bubenik
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 337] 2017. xx, 228 pp.
Vit Bubenik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vit Bubenik plays a role.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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 and Sarah Rose
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 305] 2009. xx, 262 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Other Indo-European languages
From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 280] 2006. xxx, 420 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Typology
A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)
Vit Bubenik
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Other Indo-European languages | Syntax
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony
John Hewson and Vit Bubenik
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145] 1997. xii, 403 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Typology
Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area
Vit Bubenik
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57] 1989. xv, 331 pp.
Subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2020 The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 273–292 | Chapter
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
2019 Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb system Perspectives 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
2016 On the establishment of ergative alignment during the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 109–132 | Article
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
2012 On the reconstruction of experiential constructions in (Late) Proto-Indo-European Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 31–48 | Article
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
2011 Review of Bortone (2010): Greek Prepositions from Antiquitiy to the Present Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 293–298 | Review
2009 The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian 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, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 89–101 | Article
2007 On the development of the tense/aspect system in Early New and New Persian Diachronica 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
2006 Albanian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 304–316 | Chapter
2006 Tocharian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 317–333 | Chapter
2006 Armenian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 160–177 | Chapter
2006 Cases and Prepositions in Iranian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 131–159 | Chapter
2006 From Old to Modern Slavic From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 178–204 | Chapter
2006 Cases and Postpositions in Indo-Aryan From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 102–130 | Chapter
2006 Cases and Postpositions in Hittite From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 81–101 | Chapter
2006 Cases, Averbial Particles and Adpositions in Proto-Indo-European From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 334–356 | Chapter
2006 Conclusions From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 357–383 | Chapter
2006 Baltic Languages From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 205–225 | Chapter
2001 On the actualization of the passive-to-ergative shift in Pre-Islamic India Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 95–118 | Article
2001 On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 75–88 | Article
2001 Review of Anttila (2000): Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *ag’- Diachronica 18:2, pp. 359–366 | Review
2000 Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 23–34 | Article
2000 Was Proto-Romani an ergative language? Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 205–228 | Article
1999 31. Berthold Delbrück and his Contemporaries on ‘Tempora’ in Sanskrit The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Article
1998 Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Article
1997 Chapter 3: The Verbal System of Vedic and Classical Sanskrit Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 46–66 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 14: Development of Modern Indic Tense-Aspect System Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 265–282 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 7: The Verbal System of Tocharian Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 125–141 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 4: The Verbal System of Classical Armenian Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 67–81 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 15: Development of Modern Slavic Tense-Aspect System Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 283–303 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 5: The Verbal System of Old Church Slavic Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 82–102 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 12: The Verbal System of Anatolian (Hittite) Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 229–248 | Chapter
1997 Object doubling in Romani and the Balkan languages The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 95–106 | Article
1997 Chapter 16: Development of Modern Iranian Tense-Aspect System Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 304–313 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 13: From Ancient to Modern Greek Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 249–264 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 6: The Verbal System of Albanian Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 103–124 | Chapter
1997 Chapter 19: Conclusions Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 351–364 | Chapter
1997 Causatives in Slovak and Hungarian Romani The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article
1996 Toward a Theory of Syntactic Change Diachronica 13:1, pp. 155–170 | Article
1995 Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 49–58 | Article
1995 On typological changes and structural borowing in the history of European Romani Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language, Matras, Yaron (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Article
1994 Review of Klein (1992): On Verbal Accentuation in the Rigveda Diachronica 11:2, pp. 259–262 | Review
1993 Inflectional Morphology and Clitics in Functional Grammar: Typology and Diachrony Diachronica 10:2, pp. 165–190 | 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
1992 Review of Shapiro (1991): The Sense of Change: Language as history Diachronica 9:2, pp. 317–322 | Review
1989 An Interpretation of Split Ergativity in Indo-Iranian Languages Diachronica 6:2, pp. 181–212 | Article
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
1989 Review of Anttila (1989): Historical and Comparative Linguistics Diachronica 6:1, pp. 123–136 | Review