Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Edited by Robert Crellin and Thomas Jügel
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] 2020. xiv, 686 pp.
Robert Crellin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Crellin plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?)
Edited by Terry Joyce and Robert Crellin
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 22:2 (2019) v, 142 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
Articles
2020 Chapter 16. The perfect system in Latin Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 549–590 | Chapter
The Latin perfect system is argued to denote that an eventuality described by a predicate terminates prior to some moment in time, whether utterance time in the case of the ‘present’ perfect, or reference/topic time, in the case of the perfect infinitive, past and future forms. The ‘present’… read more
2020 Chapter 13. The perfect system in Ancient Greek Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 435–482 | Chapter
The present paper surveys the diachronic development of the Ancient Greek perfect in four periods: Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical and post-Classical. At each stage the semantic evaluation of perfect is assessed in the context of the semantics of its predicate. While generally confirming the… read more
2019 Writing vowels in Punic: From morphography to phonography Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?), Joyce, Terry and Robert Crellin (eds.), pp. 198–222 | Article
This paper traces the employment of original Phoenician-Punic guttural graphemes, <ˀ>, <ˁ>, <h>, and <ḥ>, to represent vowel phonemes in later Punic. Three typologically distinct treatments are identified: (1) morphographic, where the grapheme <ˀ> indicates the etymological glottal stop /ˀ/ (its… read more
2019 Writing systems: Past, present (… and future?) Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?), Joyce, Terry and Robert Crellin (eds.), pp. 167–178 | Introduction