Michail L. Kotin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michail L. Kotin plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 12. The Gothic perfective constructions in contrast to West Germanic Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 411–434 | Chapter
The paper deals with selected questions of ‘perfectivity’ as both aspect and tense function in Gothic in comparison with old and contemporary West Germanic languages. Perfectivity is treated as a functional category which originated in verbal aspect, but which has been re-analysed in many… read more
2008 Aspects of a reconstruction of form and function of modal verbs in Germanic and other languages Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 371–384 | Article
Genuine modal verbs in the Germanic languages classify as preterit presents. Since the Germanic preterit derives genetically from the Indo-European perfect and since there is no trace of the original Indo-European present stems of the modal verbs, one generally assumes that these verbal classes… read more