Grammatical change in Indo-European languages
Subtitle: papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007
By: edited by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, Sarah Rose.
Contributors: Bubeník, Vít, 1942-; Hewson, John, 1930-; Rose, Sarah; International Conference on Historical Linguistics (18th : 2007 : Montréal, Québec)
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory -- v. 305
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027248213; 9789027289292
Subjects: Indo-European languages -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of the feminine gender in PIE : an old problem in a new perspective / Silvia Luraghi; title: The animacy fallacy : cognitive categories and noun classification / Maria M. Manoliu; title: Default, animacy, avoidance : diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents / Hans Henrich Hock; title: The early development of animacy in Novgorod : evoking the vocative anew / Kyongjoon Kwon; title: The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties / Inés Fernández-Ordóñez; title: Strategies of definiteness in Latin : implications for early Indo-European / Brigitte L.M. Bauer; title: The rise and development of the possessive in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian / Vit Bubenik; title: Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? or local adverbs? : and what's the difference anyway? / Dag T. Haug; title: On the origin of the Slavic aspects : questions of chronology / Henning Andersen; title: The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European : verbal adjective or past passive participle? / Bridget Drinka; title: Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis of Germanic / John Hewson; title: The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite Ti/mi conjugations / Sarah R. Rose; title: The origin of the oblique-subject construction and Indo-European comparison / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson; title: Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on the syntax / Azam Estaji; title: Possessive subjects, nominalization, and ergativity in North Russian / Hakyung Jung; title: On the grammaticalization of *kwi-/kwo- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European / Eugenio R. Luján; title: Formal correspondences, different functions : on the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European / José Luis García Ramón.