Archaic Syntax in Indo-European
The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2011
XVIII, 394 pages
978-3-11-082599-2 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Abbreviations referring to grammatical terms:
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Language typology: Arbitrariness and system
- 1.2 Indo-European linguistics and content-related typology
- 1.3 Language types
- 1.4 Proto-Indo-European and active typology
- 1.5 The aim of this study
- Chapter 2 The ergative and active hypotheses for Proto-Indo-European
- 2.1 Preliminary discussion: Uhlenbeck and Sapir
- 2.2 General characteristics of ergativity
- 2.3 Proto-Indo-European and the ergative hypothesis
- 2.4 Non-Transitive languages
- 2.5 Conclusion: The non-nominative stage of Proto-Indo-European
- Chapter 3 Impersonal verbs
- 3.1 The impersonal verb in Indo-European: General considerations
- 3.2 Impersonal verbs referring to weather conditions
- 3.3 Impersonal verbs in Latin not referring to weather conditions
- 3.4 The development of impersonal verbs in the shift from Latin to Romance
- 3.5 Impersonal verbs in non-Indo-European languages
- 3.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Possessive mihi est constructions
- 4.1 Types of possession
- 4.2 Possession in Indo-European languages
- 4.3 The mihi est construction in Latin
- 4.4 Dative vs. genitive in possessive constructions
- 4.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Nominal structures: Verbal mihi est constructions
- 5.1 Verbal mihi est constructions in the early daughter languages
- 5.2 Verbal mihi est constructions in Latin
- 5.3 Verbal mihi est constructions: conclusion
- Chapter 6 Nominal structures: Absolute constructions
- 6.1 Absolute constructions in the early daughter languages
- 6.2 Absolute constructions: An inherited characteristic?
- 6.3 Absolute constructions in Latin
- 6.4 The development of absolute constructions in Latin
- 6.5 Absolutes in Old and Middle French
- 6.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- 7.1 Proto-Indo-European grammar
- 7.2 Syntactic residues in Proto-Indo-European
- 7.3 Grammatical characteristics and the development of syntactic residues
- 7.4 Parallels with other structures
- References
- Index
