Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Editors
This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. xiv, 686 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Editors’ foreword | pp. vii–x
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Abbreviations | pp. xi–xiv
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Chapter 1. IntroductionBernard Comrie | pp. 1–14
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Chapter 2. The development of the perfect within IE verbal systems: An overviewMartin Joachim Kümmel | pp. 15–48
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Chapter 3. Celtic past tenses past and presentArndt Wigger | pp. 49–94
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Chapter 4. The development of the perfect in selected Middle and New Germanic languagesHanna Fischer | pp. 95–122
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Chapter 5. Perfects in Baltic and SlavicPeter Arkadiev and Björn Wiemer | pp. 123–214
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Chapter 6. Paradigmatisation of the perfect and resultative in TocharianIlja A. Seržant | pp. 215–244
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Chapter 7. The synthetic perfect from Indo-Iranian to Late VedicEystein Dahl | pp. 245–278
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Chapter 8. The perfect in Middle and New Iranian languagesThomas Jügel | pp. 279–310
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Chapter 9. The perfect in North-Eastern Neo-AramaicGeoffrey Khan | pp. 311–350
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Chapter 10. The perfect in Classical ArmenianDaniel Kölligan | pp. 351–376
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Chapter 11. The Hittite periphrastic perfectGuglielmo Inglese and Silvia Luraghi | pp. 377–410
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Chapter 12. The Gothic perfective constructions in contrast to West GermanicMichail L. Kotin | pp. 411–434
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Chapter 13. The perfect system in Ancient GreekRobert Crellin | pp. 435–482
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Chapter 14. The perfect in Medieval and Modern GreekGeoffrey Horrocks | pp. 483–504
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Chapter 15. The perfect system of Old Albanian (Geg variety)Stefan Schumacher | pp. 505–548
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Chapter 16. The perfect system in LatinRobert Crellin | pp. 549–590
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Chapter 17. Calquing a quirk: The perfect in the languages of EuropeBridget Drinka | pp. 591–614
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Chapter 18. The perfect in context in texts in English, Sistani Balochi and New Testament GreekStephen H. Levinsohn | pp. 615–634
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Chapter 19. Indo-European perfects in typological perspectiveÖsten Dahl | pp. 635–668
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Language Index | pp. 669–674
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Subject index | pp. 675–686
“The book’s title accurately depicts its truly unparalleled scope: literally all individual IE languages (or branches) are represented at least in one of the book’s chapters, which are all written by an outstanding collection of contributors. One of the book’s biggest merits is that it succeeds to sound out the intersection of Indo-European linguistics with cutting-edge expertise in typological matters and theoretically informed strands of general linguistics, especially semantics, language change, and contact.”
Thanasis Giannaris, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative