| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 305 |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 305.
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| Contents |
The origin of the feminine gender in PIE : an old problem in a new perspective / Silvia Luraghi -- The animacy fallacy : cognitive categories and noun classification / Maria M. Manoliu -- Default, animacy, avoidance : diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents / Hans Henrich Hock -- The early development of animacy in Novgorod : evoking the vocative anew / Kyongjoon Kwon -- The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties / Inés Fernández-Ordóñez -- Strategies of definiteness in Latin : implications for early Indo-European / Brigitte L.M. Bauer -- The rise and development of the possessive in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian / Vit Bubenik -- Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? : (and what's the difference anyway?) / Dag T. Haug -- On the origin of the Slavic aspects : questions of chronology / Henning Andersen -- The -to-/-no- construction of Indo-European : verbal adjective or past passive participle? / Bridget Drinka -- Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis of Germanic / John Hewson -- The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite ḫi/mi conjugations / Sarah Rose -- The origin of the oblique-subject construction: an Indo-European comparison / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson -- Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on the syntax / Azam Estaji -- Possessive subjects, nominalization, and ergativity in North Russian / Hakyung Jung -- On the grammaticalization of kwi-/kwo- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European / Eugenio R. Luján -- Formal correspondences, different functions : on the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European / José Luis García Ramón |
| Summary |
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 diathesi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indo-European languages -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses
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Linguistics -- Congresses
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Linguistics
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Indo-European languages -- Grammar, Historical
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bubeník, Vít, 1942-
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Hewson, John, 1930-2022
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Rose, Sarah (Sarah R.)
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International Conference on Historical Linguistics (18th : 2007 : Montréal, Québec)
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| LC no. |
2009013488 |
| ISBN |
9789027289292 |
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9027289298 |
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9027248214 |
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9789027248213 |
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1282245252 |
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9781282245259 |
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9786612245251 |
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6612245255 |
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