Folke Josephson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Folke Josephson is
involved.
Titles
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs
Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman
This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic,… read moreInterdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses
Edited by Folke Josephson and Ingmar Söhrman
The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian… read moreArticles
In addition to their role with regard to lexical aspect and verb semantics, the Hittite enclitic particles -san and -kan play an important role in interplay with local adverbs and case. We will show that the directional function of lative -san, when referring to goal and directed path, and of… read more Josephson, Folke 2008
Actionality and aspect in Hittite Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 131–147 | Article The Hittite reflexive construction has perfective-like functions like Spanish and Italian reflexives. We will consider if they express ‘inner’ aspect. Most present tense forms in narrative tense-switching belong to verbs with a -ske/a-suffix. These verbs can be seen as +INTRA items with actional… read more 
