Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond - 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 Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond write by Robert Crellin. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.
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.
Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family
Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family - 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 Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family write by Eystein Dahl. This book was released on 2022-08-26. Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.
The Perfect Volume
The Perfect Volume - 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 The Perfect Volume write by Kristin Melum Eide. This book was released on 2021-07-15. The Perfect Volume available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages.
Origins of the Greek Verb
Origins of the Greek Verb - 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 Origins of the Greek Verb write by Andreas Willi. This book was released on 2018-01-18. Origins of the Greek Verb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.
