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The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.

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Author:   Vit Bubenik (Memorial University of Newfoundland) ,  John Hewson (Memorial University of Newfoundland) ,  Sarah Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   305
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9789027248213

ISBN 10:   9027248214
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   16 July 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Editors' Foreword; 2. My memories of Carol Justus; 3. Section A. Gender, animacy and number; 4. The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective (by Luraghi, Silvia); 5. The animacy fallacy: Cognitive categories and noun classification (by Manoliu, Maria M.); 6. Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 7. The early development of animacy in Novgorod: Evoking the vocative anew (by Kwon, Kyongjoon); 8. The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties (by Fernandez-Ordonez, Inez); 9. Section B. Definiteness, case and prepostions; 10. Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.); 11. The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian (by Bubenik, Vit); 12. Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? (And what's the difference anyway?) (by Haug, Dag T.T.); 13. Section C. Tense/aspect and diathesis; 14. On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronology (by Andersen, Henning); 15. The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle? (by Drinka, Bridget); 16. Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis in Germanic (by Hewson, John); 17. The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite hi/mi conjugations (by Rose, Sarah); 18. Section D. Morphosyntax; 19. The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison (by Barddal, Johanna); 20. Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntax (by Estaji, Azam); 21. Possessive subjects, nominalization and ergativity in North Russian (by Jung, Hakyung); 22. On the grammaticalization of *kw i-/kw o- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European (by Lujan, Eugenio R.); 23. Section E. Reconstruction of inflectional categories in Indo-European; 24. Formal correspondences, different functions: On the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European (by Garcia-Ramon, Jose Luis); 25. Author index; 26. Index of languages and dialects; 27. Index of subjects

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C'est un volume d'une tres grande qualite qui nous est ici propose. Dans le monde actuel [...] on est souvent submerge d'articles ecrits a la hate et qui n'apportent rien de nouveau. Tel n'est pas le cas ici. On ne saurait trop conseiller la lecture de ce bel ouvrage a tous les collegues interesses par la linguistique historique. -- Daniel Petit, in Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris, Tome 105/2, 2010

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