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Description
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The book investigates multiple preverbs (PVs) in some ancient IE languages (Vedic, Homeric Greek, Old Church Slavic, and Old Irish). After an introduction, it opens with the theoretical framework and a typologically-oriented overview of PVs. It then gives quantitative data about multiple PV composites and carries out philological, formal, semantic, and syntactic analyses on them. The comparison among these languages suggests that a process of accumulation lies behind multiple PV composites. Also, PV ordering is explained by different factors: semantic solidarity between PVs and verbs PVs' tendency to be specified by event participants, PVs' etymologies, influence from other languages. The book also contributes to casting light on the reasons for PVs' grammaticalization and lexicalization. These are two distinct reanalyses triggered by the same factor, i.e. the mentioned semantic solidarity, which makes PVs be felt as redundant. They are thus reassigned salient pieces of information as actional markers (grammaticalization) or reinterpreted as part of the verb (lexicalization).
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1. Introduction2. Theoretical background3. Preverbs: an overview4. Multiple preverbs in Vedic5. Multiple preverbs in Homeric Greek6. Multiple preverbs in Old Church Slavic7. Multiple preverbs in Old Irish8. Multiple preverbs in ancient Indo-European languages: differences, similarities and concluding remarks
(Author portrait)
Chiara Zanchi arbeitet als Postdoktorandin mit den Forschungsgebieten Indogermanistik, Historische Sprachwissenschaft und Kognitive Linguistik an der Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italien).
