A Sketch of the Indo-European Finite Verb
| Author | : J. Alexander Kerns |
| Publisher | : Brill Archive |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Indo-European languages |
| ISBN | : 9789004035478 |
A Sketch Of The Indo European Finite Verb
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A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology
| Author | : Kenneth Shields |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 1992-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027235880 |
This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into verbal structures in order to indicate the 'hic and nunc' and various degrees of remoteness from the 'hic and nunc'. The alterations to which these deictic elements were subject are viewed here in the context of an Indo-European language very different from Brugmannian Indo-European, many features of which, it is argued, appeared only in the period of dialectal development. This book challenges numerous traditional proposals about the Indo-European verb; all reconstructions contained in it are firmly based on extant data and are consonant with established principles of linguistic change.
A grammar of modern Indo-European
| Author | : Carlos Quiles |
| Publisher | : Indo-European Association |
| Total Pages | : 793 |
| Release | : 2011-05-03 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1461022134 |
A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is a complete reference guide to a living Indo-European language. It contains a comprehensive description of Proto-Indo-European grammar, and offers an analysis of the complexities of the prehistoric language and its reconstruction from its descendant languages. Written in a fresh and accessible style, and illustrated with maps, figures and tables, this book focusses on the real patterns of use of Late Indo-European. The book is well organised and is filled with full, clear explanations of areas of confusion and difficulty. It also contains an extensive English - Indo-European, Indo-European - English vocabulary, as well as detailed etymological notes, designed to provide readers with an easy access to the information they require.An essential reference source for the student of Indo-European as a learned and living language, this work will appeal to students of languages, classics, and the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the history of language, and in speaking the direct ancestor of the world's largest language family.
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages
| Author | : John Hewson |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 1997-03-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027275971 |
This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.
Bono Homini Donum
| Author | : Yoël L. Arbeitman |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 1094 |
| Release | : 1981-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027280959 |
The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.
Nostratic
| Author | : Joseph C. Salmons |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027236461 |
The "Nostratic" hypothesis -- positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic -- has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another's arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant genetic relationships generally.The volume contains discussion of variants of the Nostratic hypothesis (A. Bomhard; J. Greenberg; A. Manaster-Ramer, K. Baertsch, K. Adams, & P. Michalove), the mathematics of chance in determining the relationships posited for Nostratic (R. Oswa< D. Ringe), and the evidence from particular branches posited in Nostratic (L. Campbell; C. Hodge; A. Vovin), with responses and additional discussion by E. Hamp, B. Vine, W. Baxter and B. Comrie.
The Nostratic Macrofamily
| Author | : Allan R. Bomhard |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 948 |
| Release | : 2011-05-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110875640 |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz
| Author | : Yoël L. Arbeitman |
| Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 612 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789068311433 |
(Peeters 1988)
Индоевропейский словарь с ностратическими этимологиями. Том III
| Author | : Арон Долгопольский |
| Publisher | : Litres |
| Total Pages | : 845 |
| Release | : 2022-05-15 |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 5457883671 |
Настоящая монография представляет собой трехтомное посмертное издание труда выдающегося советского и российского лингвиста А. Б. Долгопольского, одного из крупнейших и всемирно признанных специалистов по сравнительно-историческому языкознанию и изучению дальнего родства языков. «Индоевропейский словарь с ностратическими этимологиями» составлен автором на основе главного труда его жизни – «Ностратического словаря», работу над которым А. Б. Долгопольский неотрывно и интенсивно вёл почти полвека.Основной своей задачей автор считает определение и доказательство ностратических истоков индоевропейской лексики, поиск регулярных соответствий между лексическими единицами индоевропейских языков и языков других семей Старого Света. Словарь содержит 1397 вхождений, представляющих собой реконструированные корни индоевропейского праязыка с указанием их потомков в языках индоевропейской семьи и внешних соответствий в других семьях ностратических языков. Как по широте охвата лингвистического материала, так и по глубине разработки каждой словарной единицы словарь представляет собой уникальный материал для анализа и предназначен не только для лингвистов, изучающих индоевропейские языки, но и для специалистов по сравнительно-историческому изучению языков других семей.
Evolutionary Syntax
| Author | : Ljiljana Progovac |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2015-06-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191089974 |
In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a specific framework for its study, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax, typology, neuroscience, and genetics. The author pursues an internal reconstruction of the stages of grammar based on the syntactic theory associated with Chomskyan Minimalism and arrives at specific, testable hypotheses, which are then corroborated by an abundance of theoretically analysed 'living fossils' drawn from a variety of languages. Her approach demonstrates that these fossil structures do not just coexist alongside more modern structures, but are in fact built into the very foundation of more complex structures, leading to quirks and complexities that are suggestive of a gradualist evolutionary scenario. By reconstructing a particular path along which syntax evolved, Evolutionary Syntax sheds light on the crucial properties of language design itself, as well as on the major parameters of crosslinguistic variation. As a result, this reconstruction can be meaningfully correlated with both the hominin timeline and the ever-growing body of genetic evidence that is available.
