Archaic Syntax in Indo-European
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Archaic Syntax in Indo-European

The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French

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  2. English
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Archaic Syntax in Indo-European

The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110167238
eBook ISBN
9783110825992
Topic
Lingue e linguistica
Subtopic
Grammatica e punteggiatura

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Abbreviations referring to grammatical terms:
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction
  4. 1.1 Language typology: Arbitrariness and system
  5. 1.2 Indo-European linguistics and content-related typology
  6. 1.3 Language types
  7. 1.4 Proto-Indo-European and active typology
  8. 1.5 The aim of this study
  9. Chapter 2 The ergative and active hypotheses for Proto-Indo-European
  10. 2.1 Preliminary discussion: Uhlenbeck and Sapir
  11. 2.2 General characteristics of ergativity
  12. 2.3 Proto-Indo-European and the ergative hypothesis
  13. 2.4 Non-Transitive languages
  14. 2.5 Conclusion: The non-nominative stage of Proto-Indo-European
  15. Chapter 3 Impersonal verbs
  16. 3.1 The impersonal verb in Indo-European: General considerations
  17. 3.2 Impersonal verbs referring to weather conditions
  18. 3.3 Impersonal verbs in Latin not referring to weather conditions
  19. 3.4 The development of impersonal verbs in the shift from Latin to Romance
  20. 3.5 Impersonal verbs in non-Indo-European languages
  21. 3.6 Conclusion
  22. Chapter 4 Possessive mihi est constructions
  23. 4.1 Types of possession
  24. 4.2 Possession in Indo-European languages
  25. 4.3 The mihi est construction in Latin
  26. 4.4 Dative vs. genitive in possessive constructions
  27. 4.5 Conclusion
  28. Chapter 5 Nominal structures: Verbal mihi est constructions
  29. 5.1 Verbal mihi est constructions in the early daughter languages
  30. 5.2 Verbal mihi est constructions in Latin
  31. 5.3 Verbal mihi est constructions: conclusion
  32. Chapter 6 Nominal structures: Absolute constructions
  33. 6.1 Absolute constructions in the early daughter languages
  34. 6.2 Absolute constructions: An inherited characteristic?
  35. 6.3 Absolute constructions in Latin
  36. 6.4 The development of absolute constructions in Latin
  37. 6.5 Absolutes in Old and Middle French
  38. 6.6 Conclusion
  39. Chapter 7 Conclusion
  40. 7.1 Proto-Indo-European grammar
  41. 7.2 Syntactic residues in Proto-Indo-European
  42. 7.3 Grammatical characteristics and the development of syntactic residues
  43. 7.4 Parallels with other structures
  44. References
  45. Index

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