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Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs
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, Amerindian and some Australian languages. The analyses of the structural changes and the interchange between the different grammatical categories that cause them which are presented in the chapters of this volume yield astonishing results. The diachronic perspective combined with a comparative approach provides profound knowledge of the typology of the verb and other typological issues and will serve researchers, as well as advanced and beginning of linguistics students in a way that has rarely been encountered before.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 134] 2013. viii, 443 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2013
Published online on 1 July 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. 1–12
- On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late LatinGerd V.M. Haverling | pp. 13–56
- The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle PersianJudith Josephson | pp. 57–78
- The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages: Aspectual and modal meaningsNadezhda Zorikhina Nilsson | pp. 79–106
- Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languagesWilliam B. McGregor | pp. 107–132
- Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real?Atle Grønn | pp. 133–158
- On non-canonical modal clause junction in TurkicLars Johanson | pp. 159–172
- Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languagesIngmar Söhrman | pp. 173–210
- Subjects and objects with Latin habere and some of its Romance descendantsBirte Stengaard | pp. 211–222
- Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic)Peter Bakker | pp. 223–260
- Typological change in Vedic: The development of the Aorist from a perfective past to an immediate pastEystein Dahl | pp. 261–298
- On the evolution of verbal aspect in insular CelticAilbhe Ó Corráin | pp. 299–328
- The anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languagesKjartan G. Ottósson | pp. 329–382
- Directionality, case and actionality in HittiteFolke Josephson | pp. 383–410
- The case of unaccusatives in Classical PortugueseKristine Gunn Eide | pp. 411–424
- Some historical developments of the verb in Neo-AramaicGeoffrey Khan | pp. 425–434
- Contributors | p. 435
- Index | pp. 437–443