Vit Bubenik

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vit Bubenik is involved.

Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages

Vit Bubenik

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ‘upstream’ from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 337] 2017. xx, 228 pp.

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

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,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 305] 2009. xx, 262 pp.

From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages

John Hewson and Vit Bubenik

In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 280] 2006. xxx, 419 pp.

A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhraṃśa)

Vit Bubenik

This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 165] 1998. xxiv, 265 pp.

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony

John Hewson and Vit Bubenik

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… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145] 1997. xii, 403 pp.

Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area

Vit Bubenik

This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 57] 1989. xv, 331 pp.

Bubenik, Vit and Leila Ziamajidi 2020 The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 273–292 | Chapter

This paper focuses on the long-term grammaticalization of tense/aspect systems in the West Iranian languages, beginning with Old Iranian (Section 1). In Middle Persian (Section 2) the Aorist and the reduplicative Perfect of Old Persian were replaced by a new system of analytic constructions. The… read more

Bubenik, Vit 2019 Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb system Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 193–204 | Chapter

The present article contributes to the current theoretical discussions regarding the issues of grammaticalization, degrammati(calizati)on and reanalysis as practiced by scholars working predominantly in West European, Greek and Slavic languages. It brings into discussion relatively… read more

Bubenik, Vit 2016 On the establishment of ergative alignment during the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 109–132 | Article

I will argue that the Late Middle Indo-Aryan period (7–11th c.) was the crucial period for the establishment of ergative alignment as known from contemporary West Indo-Aryan languages (Bubenik 1998). I will demonstrate that the syncretism of case leading to the appearance of the absolutive case in… read more

Bubenik, Vit 2012 On the reconstruction of experiential constructions in (Late) Proto-Indo-European Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 31–48 | Article

In this paper I will attempt to reconstruct the (Late) PIE syntax of experiential constructions for three classes of verbs: in (1) and (2) for verbs of cognition and perception, in (3) verbs denoting changes in bodily states, and in (4) verbs of deontic and epistemic modality. In (5) I will make… read more

Bubenik, Vit 2011 Review of Bortone (2010): Greek Prepositions from Antiquitiy to the Present Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 293–298 | Review

Bubenik, Vit 2009 The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian 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, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 89–101 | Article

Estaji, Azam and Vit Bubenik 2007 On the development of the tense/aspect system in Early New and New Persian Diachronica 24:1, pp. 31–56 | Article

The unique documentation of the Iranian family of languages provides a rare opportunity to study the development of a verbal system over the span of several millennia. We argue that the rise of the Early New Persian aspectual type was a consequence of the loss of ergative typology, examining the… read more

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Albanian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 304–316 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Tocharian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 317–333 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Armenian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 160–177 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Cases and Prepositions in Iranian From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 131–159 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 From Old to Modern Slavic From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 178–204 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Cases and Postpositions in Indo-Aryan From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 102–130 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Cases and Postpositions in Hittite From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 81–101 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2006 Cases, Averbial Particles and Adpositions in Proto-Indo-European From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 334–356 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit and John Hewson 2006 Conclusions From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 357–383 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit and John Hewson 2006 Baltic Languages From Case to Adposition: The development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 205–225 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 2001 On the actualization of the passive-to-ergative shift in Pre-Islamic India Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 95–118 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 2001 On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 75–88 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 2001 Review of Anttila (2000): Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *ag’- Diachronica 18:2, pp. 359–366 | Review

Bubenik, Vit 2000 Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 23–34 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 2000 Was Proto-Romani an ergative language? Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 206–229 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1999 31. Berthold Delbrück and his Contemporaries on ‘Tempora’ in Sanskrit The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1998 Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 3: The Verbal System of Vedic and Classical Sanskrit Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 46–66 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 14: Development of Modern Indic Tense-Aspect System Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 265–282 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 7: The Verbal System of Tocharian Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 125–141 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 4: The Verbal System of Classical Armenian Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 67–81 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 15: Development of Modern Slavic Tense-Aspect System Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 283–303 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 5: The Verbal System of Old Church Slavic Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 82–102 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 12: The Verbal System of Anatolian (Hittite) Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 229–248 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Object doubling in Romani and the Balkan languages The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 95–106 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 16: Development of Modern Iranian Tense-Aspect System Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 304–313 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 13: From Ancient to Modern Greek Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 249–264 | Chapter

Bubenik, Vit 1997 Chapter 6: The Verbal System of Albanian Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 103–124 | Chapter

Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik 1997 Chapter 19: Conclusions Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages: Theory, typology, diachrony, Hewson, John and Vit Bubenik, pp. 351–364 | Chapter

Hübschmannová, Milena and Vit Bubenik 1997 Causatives in Slovak and Hungarian Romani The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1996 Toward a Theory of Syntactic Change Diachronica 13:1, pp. 155–170 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1995 Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 49–58 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1995 On typological changes and structural borowing in the history of European Romani Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language, Matras, Yaron (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Article

Bubenik, Vit 1994 Review of Klein (1992): On Verbal Accentuation in the Rigveda Diachronica 11:2, pp. 259–262 | Review

Bubenik, Vit 1993 Inflectional Morphology and Clitics in Functional Grammar: Typology and Diachrony Diachronica 10:2, pp. 165–190 | Article

SUMMARY The Theory of Functional Grammar (S. C. Dik 1989) does not recognize explicitly the INFLECTIONAL type in addition to the FREE PRONOUN, CLITIC and APPOSITIONAL types. On the basis of data from a number of IE and non-IE languages, this paper presents cogent evidence for its recognition. It is… read more

Bubenik, Vit 1992 Review of Shapiro (1991): The Sense of Change: Language as history Diachronica 9:2, pp. 317–322 | Review

Bubenik, Vit 1989 An Interpretation of Split Ergativity in Indo-Iranian Languages Diachronica 6:2, pp. 181–212 | Article

SUMMARY This paper investigates three problems related to the phenomenon of split ergativity in several Indo-Iranian languages. (1) In ergative tenses Pashto and Kashmiri belong to the canonical ergative-absolutive type — irrespective of the definiteness of the nominal P(atient) — while Sindhî and… read more

Bubenik, Vit 1989 Review of Anttila (1989): Historical and Comparative Linguistics Diachronica 6:1, pp. 123–136 | Review