Tmesis And Proto Indo European Syntax

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Tmesis And Proto Indo European Syntax

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Author : Jacqueline Boley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Tmesis And Proto Indo European Syntax written by Jacqueline Boley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Proto-Indo-European language categories.

Proto Indo European Syntax And Its Development

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Author : Leonid Kulikov
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-07-15

Proto Indo European Syntax And Its Development written by Leonid Kulikov and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The papers in this volume originate from the Workshop “PIE Syntax and its Development” (Thessaloniki 2011), which aimed to bring together scholars interested in these problems and to shine new light on current research into ancient Indo-European syntax. Special attention was paid to the development of the hypothetical reconstructed features within the documented history of Indo-European languages. The articles in this volume were originally published in the Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 3:1 (2013).

Proto Indo European Syntax

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Author : Paul Friedrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Proto Indo European Syntax written by Paul Friedrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Indo-European languages categories.

Multiple Preverbs In Ancient Indo European Languages

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Author : Chiara Zanchi
language : en
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2019-08-26

Multiple Preverbs In Ancient Indo European Languages written by Chiara Zanchi and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-26 with Literary Criticism categories.

The book investigates multiple preverbs (PVs) in some ancient IE languages (Vedic, Homeric Greek, Old Church Slavic, and Old Irish). After an introduction, it opens with the theoretical framework and a typologically-oriented overview of PVs. It then gives quantitative data about multiple PV composites and carries out philological, formal, semantic, and syntactic analyses on them. The comparison among these languages suggests that a process of accumulation lies behind multiple PV composites. Also, PV ordering is explained by different factors: semantic solidarity between PVs and verbs PVs tendency to be specified by event participants, PVs etymologies, influence from other languages. The book also contributes to casting light on the reasons for PVs grammaticalization and lexicalization. These are two distinct reanalyses triggered by the same factor, i.e. the mentioned semantic solidarity, which makes PVs be felt as redundant. They are thus reassigned salient pieces of information as actional markers (grammaticalization) or reinterpreted as part of the verb (lexicalization).

Grammaticalization Paths Of English And High German Existential Constructions

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Author : Simone E. Pfenninger
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009

Grammaticalization Paths Of English And High German Existential Constructions written by Simone E. Pfenninger and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.

From Case To Adposition

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Author : John Hewson
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-12-13

From Case To Adposition written by John Hewson and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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 developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older forms of IE, by forming fixed phrases with nominal elements, a pattern later followed in the development of a configurational NP (article + nominal) and VP (auxiliary + verbal). The authors follow this evolution through almost four thousand years of documentation in all twelve language families of the Indo-European phylum, noting the resemblances between the structure of the original IE case system and the systemic oppositions to be found in the sets of adpositions that replaced it. Quite apart from its theoretical analyses and proposals which in themselves amount to a new look at many traditional problems, this study has a value in the collected store of information on cases, and on adpositions and their usage. There is also a considerable store of etymological information that is relevant to the description of the systemic development.

Classical Philology And Linguistics

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Author : Georgios K. Giannakis
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-10-24

Classical Philology And Linguistics written by Georgios K. Giannakis and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies. Ever since its appearance in the nineteenth century, the history of this debate testifies to a turbulent coexistence and fertile collaboration of the two disciplines, but at times also moving along centrifugal paths. The essays in this volume address this debate and cover various aspects of linguistic and philological research of Greek and Latin, moving in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other highlighting the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts and drawing on fields such as syntactic theory and pragmatics, historical semantics and the lexicon, reconstruction and etymology, dialectology, editorial practices, the use of corpora, and other interdisciplinary approaches that function as hinges between philology and linguistics.

Chronology Dialect And Style In Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

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Author : Tom McConnell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-12-20

Chronology Dialect And Style In Early Greek Hexameter Poetry written by Tom McConnell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-20 with History categories.

Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry is composed is so special and unique in ancient literature. It has long been maintained that various features of the artificial dialect of the poems gradually fell out of use as time went by, and therefore that we can use the poems' language to date the texts. This book takes a deep dive into the linguistic features in question and the wider problems in extrapolating chronology from their distribution, all while advocating for the importance of statistical rigour. Part I contains five chapters which are devoted to different linguistic phenomena, and problems in quantifying them are set out in each. Part II argues that chronology is just one part of a much wider picture, and that not only dialect but also style is a highly salient factor in understanding language variation throughout the poems. This notion of style is linked to the linguistic concept of register, and it is argued that the prehistory of different kinds of poetry led to the creation of different registers for different (sub)genres within the corpus. McConnell therefore takes a linguistic approach to understanding the literary history of early Greek hexameter poetry.

Language Change In Epic Greek And Other Poetic Traditions

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-03-10

Language Change In Epic Greek And Other Poetic Traditions written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Homeric language fascinates because of its many oddities with respect to other forms of Ancient Greek. From which dialects did this poetic language take shape and develop? In which ways did individual poets alter the language? In this volume you will find twelve cutting-edge studies on linguistic change in oral traditions, with a focus on Early Greek epic but also including Near-Eastern traditions (Biblical Hebrew, Quranic Arabic). Several studies focus on an innovative idea of phonological change occurring within an oral tradition. You will also find studies on the adaptation of linguistic form to meter; formulae and epithets; and contact between different traditions or registers.

Unity And Diversity In Grammaticalization Scenarios

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Author : Walter Bisang
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2017

Unity And Diversity In Grammaticalization Scenarios written by Walter Bisang and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.

The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language families (Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Bantu, Mande, "Khoisan", Siouan, and Mayan). The volume stands out in the vast literature on grammaticalization by focusing on variation in grammaticalization scenarios and areal patterns in grammaticalization. Apart from documenting new grammaticalization paths, the volume makes a methodological contribution as it addresses an important question of how to reconcile universal outcomes of grammaticalization processes with the fact that the input to these processes is language-specific and construction-specific.