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Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages : Papers Presented at the Workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007 /

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, bu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Otros Autores: Bubeník, Vít, 1942-, Hewson, John, 1930-2022, Rose, Sarah (Sarah R.)
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 305.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The origin of the feminine gender in PIE : an old problem in a new perspective / Silvia Luraghi
  • The animacy fallacy : cognitive categories and noun classification / Maria M. Manoliu
  • Default, animacy, avoidance : diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents / Hans Henrich Hock
  • The early development of animacy in Novgorod : evoking the vocative anew / Kyongjoon Kwon
  • The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties / Inés Fernández-Ordóñez
  • Strategies of definiteness in Latin : implications for early Indo-European / Brigitte L.M. Bauer
  • The rise and development of the possessive in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian / Vit Bubenik
  • Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? : (and what's the difference anyway?) / Dag T. Haug
  • On the origin of the Slavic aspects : questions of chronology / Henning Andersen
  • The -to-/-no- construction of Indo-European : verbal adjective or past passive participle? / Bridget Drinka
  • Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis of Germanic / John Hewson
  • The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite ḫi/mi conjugations / Sarah Rose
  • The origin of the oblique-subject construction: an Indo-European comparison / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson
  • Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on the syntax / Azam Estaji
  • Possessive subjects, nominalization, and ergativity in North Russian / Hakyung Jung
  • On the grammaticalization of kwi-/kwo- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European / Eugenio R. Luján
  • Formal correspondences, different functions : on the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European / José Luis García Ramón.