Full Description
Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The papers in this volume originate from the Workshop "PIE Syntax and its Development" (Thessaloniki 2011), which aimed to bring together scholars interested in these problems and to shine new light on current research into ancient Indo-European syntax. Special attention was paid to the development of the hypothetical reconstructed features within the documented history of Indo-European languages.
The articles in this volume were originally published in the Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 3:1 (2013).
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European categories: The reflexive and the middle in Hittite and in the Proto-language (by Kurras, Paola Cotticelli); 3. The rise of 'subordination features' in the history of Greek and their decline: The 'Indirect Speech Traits Cycle' (by Fykias, Ioannis); 4. Proto-Indo-European verb-finality: Reconstruction, typology, validation (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 5. Hittite pai- 'go' and uwa- 'come' as Restructuring Verbs (by Koller, Bernhard); 6. Reconstructing passive and voice in Proto-Indo-European (by Kulikov, Leonid); 7. Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages (by Longobardi, Giuseppe); 8. Subject index
