Michail L. Kotin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michail L. Kotin is involved.
Articles
2020 Chapter 12. The Gothic perfective constructions in contrast to West Germanic Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 411–434 | Chapter
The paper deals with selected questions of ‘perfectivity’ as both aspect and tense function in Gothic in comparison with old and contemporary West Germanic languages. Perfectivity is treated as a functional category which originated in verbal aspect, but which has been re-analysed in many… read more
2008 Aspects of a reconstruction of form and function of modal verbs in Germanic and other languages Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 371–384 | Article
Genuine modal verbs in the Germanic languages classify as preterit presents. Since the Germanic preterit derives genetically from the Indo-European perfect and since there is no trace of the original Indo-European present stems of the modal verbs, one generally assumes that these verbal classes… read more