Robert Crellin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Crellin plays a role.

Titles

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond

Edited by Robert Crellin and Thomas Jügel

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. xiv, 686 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?)

Edited by Terry Joyce and Robert Crellin

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 22:2 (2019) v, 142 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
Crellin, Robert 2020 Chapter 16. The perfect system in LatinPerfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 549–590 | Chapter
The Latin perfect system is argued to denote that an eventuality described by a predicate terminates prior to some moment in time, whether utterance time in the case of the ‘present’ perfect, or reference/topic time, in the case of the perfect infinitive, past and future forms. The ‘present’… read more
Crellin, Robert 2020 Chapter 13. The perfect system in Ancient GreekPerfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 435–482 | Chapter
The present paper surveys the diachronic development of the Ancient Greek perfect in four periods: Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical and post-Classical. At each stage the semantic evaluation of perfect is assessed in the context of the semantics of its predicate. While generally confirming the… read more
Crellin, Robert 2019 Writing vowels in Punic: From morphography to phonographyWriting Systems: Past, present (… and future?), Joyce, Terry and Robert Crellin (eds.), pp. 198–222 | Article
This paper traces the employment of original Phoenician-Punic guttural graphemes, <ˀ>, <ˁ>, <h>, and <ḥ>, to represent vowel phonemes in later Punic. Three typologically distinct treatments are identified: (1) morphographic, where the grapheme <ˀ> indicates the etymological glottal stop /ˀ/ (its… read more
Joyce, Terry and Robert Crellin 2019 Writing systems: Past, present (… and future?)Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?), Joyce, Terry and Robert Crellin (eds.), pp. 167–178 | Introduction