37.2787, Books: Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European and beyond: Grestenberger, Reiter, and Malzahn (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 01-Sep-2026
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European and beyond: Grestenberger, Reiter, and Malzahn (eds.) (2026)


Title: Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond
Series Title: Advances in Historical Linguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/551

Editor(s): Laura Grestenberger, Viktoria Reiter, Melanie Malzahn

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Abstract:

The lexicalization of property concepts (PCs) — basic adjectival
states such as big, small, hard, soft, black, white, fast, quick — has
long been a central concern of both typology and linguistic theory. In
historical Indo-European linguistics, PCs are most often examined
through the lens of the “Caland System”, a complex derivational
network of suffixes that structure the expression of such concepts.
Yet while the nominal and adjectival exponents of this system have
been intensively studied, their verbal counterparts remain
comparatively underexplored. This volume takes up that challenge by
asking: which classes of adjectives serve as inputs to verbalization,
what syntactic and semantic alternations emerge in these derived
verbs, and what do these patterns reveal about the status of
“adjectival roots” in Indo-European and beyond?
The contributions collected here investigate the morphology, syntax,
and semantics of deadjectival verbs across the older Indo-European
languages. By situating these formations within the broader typology
of adjective derivation, property concept encoding, and primary vs.
secondary verb formation, the volume forges new connections between
typological generalizations, theoretical models, and
historical-comparative evidence. In doing so, it not only illuminates
the dynamics of verbal derivation in Indo-European but also advances
our understanding of how the pathways from property concepts to verbal
predicates are structured cross-linguistically.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Indo-European (indo1319)

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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