LINGUIST List 11.1635

Wed Jul 26 2000

Books: Typology and Historical Syntax

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  • Gillian Caglayan, Typology/Historical Syntax: Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, B. Bauer

    Message 1: Typology/Historical Syntax: Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, B. Bauer

     Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:13:17 +0200
    From: Gillian Caglayan <G.CaglayandeGruyter.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 /�S 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: ordersdegruyter.de

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