Author : Jared Klein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1291 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110540525
This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
Author : András Bárány
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3985540047
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters develop novel insights into a number of core syntactic phenomena, such as the structure of and variation in diathesis, alignment types, case and agreement splits, and the syntax of null elements. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and they provide varied perspectives on current research in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax.
Author : Guglielmo Inglese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004432302
Prize winner: Eugenio Coseriu Award (2021) This book offers a new treatment of the middle voice in Hittite. The book features two main parts. In the first part, the author provides an updated synchronic description of the Hittite middle based on the existing typology of voice systems and valency changing operations. Moreover, based on a careful analysis of a chronologically ordered corpus of original Hittite texts, the book offers the first ever diachronic account of the Hittite middle. As Inglese argues, the findings of this book greatly enrich our general knowledge of the diachronic typology of middle voice systems. The second part of the book features a thorough description of more than 100 Hittite verbs in original texts.
Author : Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110719282
Recent years have witnessed a (re)surfacing of interest on the interaction of morphology and syntax. For many grammatical phenomena, it is not easy to draw a dividing line between syntactic and morphological structure. This has led to the assumption that syntax is the module responsible not only for deriving syntactically complex phrases but also for deriving morphologically complex items, both in inflection and word formation. There are however also good reasons to think that syntax is not involved in all morphological processes and that there are consistent areas of morphology that are independent from syntactic processes. This book presents a collection of papers where phenomena from Romance languages and varieties are analysed under contrasting views on how morphology and syntax interact. All the contributions follow the aim to investigate what the analysed phenomena tell us about their structural make‐up and the grammatical processes involved.
Author : Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198759525
This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages only allow for the head-initial orders VO and AuxV. Lieven Danckaert offers a detailed, corpus-based description of these two word order alternations, focusing on their diachronic development in the period from c. 200 BC until 600 AD. The corpus data reveal that some received wisdom needs to be reconsidered: there is in fact no evidence for any major increase in productivity of the order VO during the eight centuries under investigation, and the order AuxV only becomes more frequent in clauses with a modal verb and an infinitive, not in clauses with a BE-auxiliary and a past participle. The book also explores a more fundamental question about Latin syntax, namely whether or not the language is configurational, in the sense that a phrase structure grammar (with 'higher-order constituents' such as verb phrases) is needed to describe and analyse Latin word order patterns. Four pieces of evidence are presented that suggest that Latin is indeed a fully configurational language, despite its high degree of word order flexibility. Specifically, it is shown that there is ample evidence for the existence of a verb phrase constituent. The book thus contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the status of configurationality as a language universal.
Author : Darya Kavitskaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192845810
This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. Historical linguistics does not solely focus on reconstructing a language's linguistic past and exploring the mechanisms underlying previous language changes; it also addresses broader questions concerning the development and ongoing evolution of language. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite, Proto-Turkic, and Proto-Bantu, and from present-day languages including Akan, Cantonese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Selis-Ql'ispé, Nivaclé, and Spanish. The contributions showcase current research in historical linguistics and exemplify the dynamism and inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field.
Author : Elisabeth Rieken
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Hitita (Lengua).
ISBN :
"Unter dem Titel "100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen. Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und Forschung" sind 25 Beiträge versammelt, die einerseits Bilanz ziehen und andererseits zukunftsorientiert aktuelle Forschungsfragen verfolgen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen morphologische und morphosyntaktische Themen, welche die Bedeutung des Hethitischen für die Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, besonders im Hinblick auf die Rekonstruktion der Grundsprache und möglicher Stammbaummodelle, würdigen. Daneben bietet der Tagungsband Beiträge mit syntaktischen, syntaktisch-semantischen, methodologischen und philologischen Fragestellungen und präsentiert somit ein breites Spektrum neuer Denkanstösse und Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Anatolistik und Indogermanistik."--
Author : Andrew Spencer
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199679924
Andrew Spencer argues that inflection and derivation cannot be properly distinguished and that conventional approaches to morphology are fatally flawed. He uses intermediate types of lexical relatedness in a variety of languages (including Slavic, Australian, Germanic, and Romance) to develop an enriched and morphologically-informed model of the lexical entry. He then uses this to build the foundations for a model of lexical relatedness that is consistent withparadigm-based models. This profound and stimulating book will interest morphologists, lexicographers, and theoretical linguists more generally.
Author : Nicklas N. Bahrt
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961103194
This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
