A History of Indo-European Verb MorphologyThis book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into verbal structures in order to indicate the 'hic and nunc' and various degrees of remoteness from the 'hic and nunc'. The alterations to which these deictic elements were subject are viewed here in the context of an Indo-European language very different from Brugmannian Indo-European, many features of which, it is argued, appeared only in the period of dialectal development. This book challenges numerous traditional proposals about the Indo-European verb; all reconstructions contained in it are firmly based on extant data and are consonant with established principles of linguistic change. |
Contents
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Chapter II The Origin of the Singular Person Markers Tense Markers and Related Grammatical Categories | 23 |
Chapter III The Origin of the NonSingular Category | 65 |
Chapter IV The Origin of the HiConjugation the Perfect and the Middle Voice | 85 |
Chapter V The Origin of the Optative and the Subjunctive | 115 |
Chapter VI A Brief Chronological Summary | 121 |
Endnotes | 125 |
References | 133 |
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1st sg 3rd pl 3rd sg ablaut Adrados allophone analogical Anatolian Anttila aorist appearance attested Avest Brugmann Burrow conjugation consonant contamination copula dative deictic particle deixis demonstrative derives desinence dialects dual early Indo-European element enclitic etymological formations forms function genitive Gothic Greek Hitt Hittite imperative indicative Indo Indo-European language Indo-European Proper Indo-European Studies Indo-Iranian influence Kerns & Schwartz Kurylowicz languages laryngeal Latin Lehmann lexical lexical diffusion Lith locative middle voice morpheme morphological neogrammarian non-personal non-present non-singular nouns Old High German optative original perfect person marker personal pronouns phoneme phonological plur preconsonantal present preterite primary proposed reanalysis reanalyzed reconstruction reflect reflexive result s—aorist sandhi variant Sanskrit Schmalstieg second person singular second-third person secondary ending semantic Shields sigmatic sound change stative stem subjunctive suffix Szemerényi tense thematic vowel theory third person plural third person singular Tocharian typological verbs voiceless Watkins