Kenneth Shields

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kenneth Shields is involved.

Title

A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology

Kenneth Shields

This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 88] 1992. viii, 160 pp.

Articles (10) | Order by:

Shields, Kenneth 2004 On the Indo-European Origins of Greek 3rd Pl. Act.Imperative -ντον: “New Image” Morphology and Monophthongizations Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg, Baldi, Philip and Pietro U. Dini (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Chapter

Shields, Kenneth 2004 On the Origin of the *es-/*wes- Suppletion in the Germanic Copula: A "New Image" Perspective NOWELE Volume 45 (October 2004), pp. 25–32 | Article

Shields, Kenneth 2001 Gothic 2nd Dual -ts and West Germanic 2nd Singular -st: An Analogical Connection? NOWELE Volume 38 (March 2001), pp. 115–123 | Article

Shields, Kenneth 1995 The Indo-European Genitive Marker *-R: Evidence from Germanic and Other Dialects NOWELE Volume 25 (March 1995), pp. 49–62 | Article

Shields, Kenneth 1992 On The Origin of The Germanic Decads, 70-100 NOWELE Volume 19 (March 1992), pp. 89–100 | Article

Shields, Kenneth 1987 Gothic izwis NOWELE Volume 10 (October 1987), pp. 95–108 | Article

Shields, Kenneth 1986 Papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Edited by Jacek Fisiak Diachronica 3:2, pp. 243–253 | Review

Shields, Kenneth 1985 Speculations About the Indo-European Cardinals 5-10 Diachronica 2:2, pp. 189–200 | Article

SUMMARY On the basis of some recent research in Indo-European phonology and morphology, it is suggested in this paper that the IE cardinals 5 to 10 were subject to affixation by non-singular markers. These markers, probably originating as quantitative enclitic adverbs, were added to these numerals… read more

Shields, Kenneth 1981 On Indo-European sigmatic verbal formations Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. (2 volumes), Arbeitman, Yoël L. and Allan R. Bomhard (eds.), pp. 263–279 | Article

Shields, Kenneth 1977 Distinguishers and their Implications for Semantic Theory Studies in Language 1:2, pp. 255–261 | Miscellaneous