Perspectives on Historical Syntax
Edited by Carlotta Viti
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 169] 2015. vi, 346 pp.
Carlotta Viti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carlotta Viti plays a role.
Title
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax
Articles
2017 Semantic and cognitive factors of argument marking in ancient Indo-European languages Diachronica 34:3, pp. 368–419 | Article
This paper discusses how the argument structure of experience predicates may be affected by semantic factors in Indo-European. I investigate whether the semantic role of the experiencer is preferably expressed by the nominative or by an oblique case in various predicates of volition, cognition,… read more
2015 Historical syntax: Problems, materials, methods, hypotheses Perspectives on Historical Syntax, Viti, Carlotta (ed.), pp. 1–32 | Article
2008 The phylogenesis of hypotaxis in Vedic Diachronica 25:3, pp. 386–409 | Article
Hypotaxis has been found since the earliest records of Vedic, especially for relative and adverbial functions. However, some adverbial relations more often resort to alternative structures such as clause juxtaposition, nominalization, or particles. The principles underlying the inconsistent… read more
2008 Rheme before theme in the noun phrase: A case study from Ancient Greek Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 894–915 | Article
Information structure in the noun phrase remains unexplored or limited to the study of the s-form and the of-form in English, which are interpreted from the perspective of the Prague School. Accordingly, the prenominal s-form is chosen if the possessor expresses old information; conversely, if the… read more