In:Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007
Edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson and Sarah Rose
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305] 2009
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 16 July 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.305.toc
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Table of contents
Editors' Foreword
My memories of Carol Justus
Section A. Gender, animacy and number
The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective
The animacy fallacy: Cognitive categories and noun classification
Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents
The early development of animacy in Novgorod: Evoking the vocative anew
The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties
Section B. Definiteness, case and prepostions
Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European
The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian
Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? (And what's the difference anyway?)
Section C. Tense/aspect and diathesis
On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronology
The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle?
Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis in Germanic
The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite hi/mi conjugations
Section D. Morphosyntax
The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison
Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntax
Possessive subjects, nominalization and ergativity in North Russian
On the grammaticalization of *kw i-/kw o- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European:
Section E. Reconstruction of inflectional categories in Indo-European
Formal correspondences, different functions: On the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European
Author index
Index of languages and dialects
Index of subjects
