11.1635, Books: Typology and Historical Syntax
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:13:17 +0200
From: Gillian Caglayan <G.Caglayan at deGruyter.de>
Subject: Typology/Historical Syntax: Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, B. Bauer
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:13:17 +0200
From: Gillian Caglayan <G.Caglayan at deGruyter.de>
Subject: Typology/Historical Syntax: Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, B. Bauer
New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter!!!!
>>From the series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Series Editor: Werner Winter
Brigitte Bauer
Archaic Syntax in Indo-European
The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French
2000. 23 x 15,5 cm. XVIII, 394 pages.
Cloth. DM 218,- /EUR 111,46 /öS 1591,- /sFr 194,- /approx. US$ 109.00
ISBN 3-11-016723-9
(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 125)
This book analyzes structures in (early) Indo-European languages that
traditionally have been difficult to account for: impersonal verbs, mihi
est constructions in combination with a nominal form of the verb, and
absolute constructions. It is argued that they are inherited from
Proto-Indo-European and that they are residues of a stage at which the
proto-language was non-nominative.
Their gradual replacement with modern transitive structures, as
demonstrated in detail in the development of Latin and French, shows the
increasing importance of transitivity in the development of
Indo-European.
Contents (extract):
Introduction:
Language typology: Arbitrariness and system
Indo-European linguistics and content-related typology
Language types
Proto-Indo-European and active typology
The aim of this study
The ergative and active hypotheses for Proto-Indo-European:
Preliminary discussion: Uhlenbeck and Sapir
General characteristics of ergativity
Proto-Indo-European and the ergative hypothesis
Non-Transitive languages
Conclusion: The non-nominative stage of Proto-Indo-European
Impersonal verbs:
The impersonal verb in Indo-European: General considerations
Impersonal verbs referring to weather conditions
Impersonal verbs in Latin not referring to weather conditions
The development of impersonal verbs in the shift from Latin to Romance
Impersonal verbs in non-European languages
Conclusion
Possessive mihi est constructions:
Types of possession
Possession in Indo-European languages
The mihi est construction in Latin
Dative vs. genitive in possessive constructions
Conclusion
Nominal structures: Verbal mihi est constructions:
Verbal mihi est constructions in the early daughter languages
Verbal mihi est constructions in Latin
Verbal mihi est constructions: Conclusion
Nominal structures: Absolute constructions:
Absolute constructions in the early daughter languages
Absolute constructions: an inherited characteristic?
Absolute constructions in Latin
The development of absolute constructions in Latin
Absolutes in Old and Middle French
Conclusion
Conclusion:
Proto-Indo-European grammar
Syntactic residues in Proto-Indo-European
Grammatical characteristics and the development of syntactic residues
Parallels with other structures
Brigitte Bauer is Assistant Professor of French Linguistics at the
University of Texas, Austin.
For more information please contact the publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Fax: +49 30 26005 222
e-mail: orders at degruyter.de
Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.com
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