Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Edited by Robert Crellin and Thomas Jügel
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. xiv, 686 pp.
Thomas Jügel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas Jügel plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Chapter 8. The perfect in Middle and New Iranian languages Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 279–310 | Chapter
This paper is the first step towards a description of the category ‘perfect’ in Middle and New Iranian languages. It attempts a comprehensive overview of the various forms that developed in the course of the past 2000 years, arriving at a typological classification of the Iranian languages. The… read more
2020 Chapter 8. Topic agreement, experiencer constructions, and the weight of clitics Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 137–154 | Chapter
It has been claimed that in some Iranian languages like Sorani Kurdish enclitic pronouns shifted to verbal agreement markers via topic agreement, i.e. hanging topics resumed by enclitic pronouns are reanalysed as subjects cross-indexed by agreement markers. In this study, we suggest a bridging… read more