LINGUIST List 17.3749

Tue Dec 19 2006

Books: Historical Linguistics/Text/Corpus Linguistics: Bubenik

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, Morphological and Syntactic Change in Medieval Greek and South Slavic Languages: Bubenik

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Message 1: Morphological and Syntactic Change in Medieval Greek and South Slavic Languages: Bubenik
Date: 15-Dec-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Morphological and Syntactic Change in Medieval Greek and South Slavic Languages: Bubenik


Title: Morphological and Syntactic Change in Medieval Greek and South
Slavic Languages Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 14 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom.eu

Author: Vit Bubenik Paperback: ISBN: 389586661X Pages: 160 Price: Europe EURO 78.00
Abstract:

This monograph explores the converging and diverging development ofnominal, pronominal and verbal morphology and syntax of Byzantine Greek andSouth Slavic languages (Church Slavonic, Medieval Bulgarian andMacedonian). Its argumentation is based on primary data culled frommedieval literary documents (11-15th c.). In nominal morphology severalintermediate paradigmatic sets between Hellenistic and Modern Greek arereconstructed; the realignment of morphology and semantics in di- andtriptotic nouns in archaic dialects is brought into discussion. Theputative causal nexus between the reduction of the synthetic morphology ofcase and the emergence of the postpositive article in Bulgaro-Macedonian isre-evaluated. In pronominal morphology Medieval Greek and Macedonianconverged in favoring the strategy of proclisis with finite verb forms (butonly Macedonian went as far as reducing the pronominal clitics toquasi-affixes).

A special attention is paid to the nature of innovations in their aspectualsystems (the emancipation of the future tense from an aspect-dominatedsystem; the reanalysis of the old 'be'-perfect as the inferential mode inBulgaro Macedonian; and the rise of the 'have'-perfect in Macedonian). Newalignments in the Greek diathetic system and the issues in the placement ofthe reflexive clitics in Slavic (Wackernagel's vs. Behagel's Law) areexamined. In syntax the non-finite and finite expressions of deonticmodality, and hypotactic and paratactic realizations of the causative arestudied in the framework of the gradual finitization of the infinitivalclause.

ContentsMedieval Greek and Slavic literary corpus.1.Nominal inflection in Greek.2.Nominal inflection in South Slavic languages.3.Pronominal system.4.Object doubling constructions.5.Tense/aspect system.6.Diathetic system.7.Consequences of the loss of the infinitive.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)                             Macedonian (mkd)                             Middle Greek (qgk)
Written In: English (eng )

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