35.2825, Books: Between the Birth and Death of Future Tenses: Wiemer, Hill, Kölligan and Linnemeier (2024)

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Date: 09-Oct-2024
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Between the Birth and Death of Future Tenses: Wiemer, Hill, Kölligan and Linnemeier (2024)


Title: Between the birth and death of future tenses
Subtitle: Related languages as a natural lab for research into
grammatical change
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 58
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: LINCOM
                lincom.eu
Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc
88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085
d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392140%22

Author: Björn Wiemer
Author: Eugen Hill
Author: Daniel Kölligan
Author: Jan-Nik Linnemeier
Hardback: ISBN: 9783969392140 Pages: 135 Price: Europe EURO 116
Abstract:

This monograph is the first attempt at a comprehensive dynamic
description of future tenses that have been attested in a whole
language family, namely the Indo-European one. In general, future
tenses are known as a non-obligatory feature of grammar which are
repeatedly lost and acquired anew. Together with this, futures are
particularly prone to variation, displaying a variety of additional
(morpho)syntactic and functional properties. The authors intend to
identify factors which trigger and/or facilitate the rise and
subsequent evolution of different types of futures.
To this end, this investigation is sketched on the basis of the
Indo-European language family, so that the rise and evolution of
futures are comprehensively investigated in a range of languages with
similar typological characteristics and of identical genealogical
provenance. Their ultimate common ancestor did not have any dedicated
future tense, and the different branches of this family embrace
numerous closely related and therefore originally very similar
languages spoken in Europe and Asia. The Indo-European language family
is thus used a kind of natural laboratory, providing dynamic data on
futures in diverging language systems.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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