Anatomy of the Verb
The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)
Author
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the Greek, and showing interesting parallels with Slavic verbal constructions, serves and an illustrative model for the theory. In Part I the author argues that a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity presented there possesses an internal logic and is not at variance with observed facts in various Indo-European languages. In Part II an analysis is presented of the Gothic verb system which seeks to explain the much-disputed function of ga- and to solve the problem of Gothic aspect and actional types which does no violence either to the Gothic text or the Greek original.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 4] 1979. x, 351 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. v
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Abbreviations | p. ix
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Introduction | p. 1
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Part I. Theory
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I. Language and Reality | p. 17
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II. Predicational Bidimensionality | p. 23
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III. Multipartite Actions and the Pulse Theory of Actional Energy | p. 35
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IV. Verbal Velocities and the Classification of Verbs | p. 43
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V. Predicational Time and the Present | p. 57
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VI. Non-Present Actions and Aspect | p. 71
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Excursus: Duration and Aspect
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VII. Aspectual Contrasts | p. 83
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Excursus: The Historical Present
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VIII. Actional Types and Partial Actions | p. 91
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IX. Multiple Actions | p. 113
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X. The Perfect | p. 117
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XI. Aspect and Predicational Types | p. 123
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XII. Summary | p. 137
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Part II. Application: The Gothic Verb
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I. The Use of Gothic Aspect: Conditioning Factors | p. 143
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1. Gothic, Greek, and Slavic
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2. Tense
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3. Imperatives and Subjunctives of Command
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4. Participles
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5. Passive Voice
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6. Negative Reports
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II. Aspect and Predicational Types in Gothic | p. 161
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1. Punctuals
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2. Strong Processives
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3. Moderate Processives
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4. Weak Processives
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5. Statals
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6. Multiple Type Verbs
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7. Problems and Special Cases
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III. Gothic Point-Oriented Compounds | p. 315
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Afterword | p. 321
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Index of Gothic Verbs | p. 337
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General Index | p. 345
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2019. Chapter 11. The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-. In Historical Linguistics 2015 [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348], ► pp. 218 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General