Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages write by Vít Bubeník. This book was released on 2009. Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory write by Þórhallur Eyþórsson. This book was released on 2008. Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is 'internal factors in grammatical change.' The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of 'Grammaticalization Theory'. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syntactic (exogenous) causes and more controversially internally driven (endogenous) causes. The volume is rounded up by contributions on morphological change 'by itself.' A wide range of languages is covered, including Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Dagestan), Zoque, and Athapaskan languages, in addition to Indo-European languages, both the more familiar ones and some less well-studied varieties.
A grammar of modern Indo-European
A grammar of modern Indo-European - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A grammar of modern Indo-European write by Carlos Quiles. This book was released on 2011-05-03. A grammar of modern Indo-European available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is a complete reference guide to a living Indo-European language. It contains a comprehensive description of Proto-Indo-European grammar, and offers an analysis of the complexities of the prehistoric language and its reconstruction from its descendant languages. Written in a fresh and accessible style, and illustrated with maps, figures and tables, this book focusses on the real patterns of use of Late Indo-European. The book is well organised and is filled with full, clear explanations of areas of confusion and difficulty. It also contains an extensive English - Indo-European, Indo-European - English vocabulary, as well as detailed etymological notes, designed to provide readers with an easy access to the information they require.An essential reference source for the student of Indo-European as a learned and living language, this work will appeal to students of languages, classics, and the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the history of language, and in speaking the direct ancestor of the world's largest language family.
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages write by John Hewson. This book was released on 1997-03-06. Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.
Grammatical Change
Grammatical Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grammatical Change write by Dianne Jonas. This book was released on 2012. Grammatical Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. International scholars report on the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change, including grammaticalization, variation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment.
