Full Description
This volume applies a diachronic perspective to the verb and mainly deals with typological change affecting tense, aspect, mood and modality in a variety of Indo-European languages (Latin, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Hittite, and Semitic) and the non-Indo-European Turkic, Amerindian and some Australian languages. The analyses of the structural changes and the interchange between the different grammatical categories that cause them which are presented in the chapters of this volume yield astonishing results. The diachronic perspective combined with a comparative approach provides profound knowledge of the typology of the verb and other typological issues and will serve researchers, as well as advanced and beginning of linguistics students in a way that has rarely been encountered before.
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin (by Haverling, Gerd V.M.); 3. The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian (by Josephson, Judith); 4. The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages: Aspectual and modal meanings (by Nilsson, Nadezhda Zorikhina); 5. Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages (by McGregor, William B.); 6. Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real? (by Gronn, Atle); 7. On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic (by Johanson, Lars); 8. Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages (by Sohrman, Ingmar); 9. Subjects and objects with Latin habere and some of its Romance descendants (by Stengaard, Birte); 10. Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic) (by Bakker, Peter); 11. Typological change in Vedic: The development of the Aorist from a perfective past to an immediate past (by Dahl, Eystein); 12. On the evolution of verbal aspect in insular Celtic (by Corrain, Ailbhe O); 13. The anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languages (by Ottosson, Kjartan G.); 14. Directionality, case and actionality in Hittite (by Josephson, Folke); 15. The case of unaccusatives in Classical Portuguese (by Eide, Kristine Gunn); 16. Some historical developments of the verb in Neo-Aramaic (by Khan, Geoffrey); 17. Contributors; 18. Index
