Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond /
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 by over 940 examples....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Current issues in lingusitic theory ;
volume 352. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Bernard Comrie
- The development of the perfect within IE verbal systems : an overview / Martin Joachim Kümmel
- Celtic past tenses past and present / Arndt Wigger
- The development of the perfect in selected Middle and New Germanic languages / Hanna Fischer
- Perfects in Baltic and Slavic / Peter Arkadiev and Björn Wiemer
- Paradigmatisation of the perfect and resultative in Tocharian / Ilja A. Seržant
- The synthetic perfect from Indo-Iranian to Late Vedic / Eystein Dahl
- The perfect in Middle and New Iranian languages / Thomas Jügel
- The perfect in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan
- The perfect in Classical Armenian / Daniel Kölligan
- The Hittite periphrastic perfect / Guglielmo Inglese and Silvia Luraghi
- The Gothic perfective constructions in contrast to West Germanic / Michail L. Kotin
- The perfect system in Ancient Greek / Robert Crellin
- The perfect in Medieval and Modern Greek / Geoffrey Horrocks
- The perfect system of Old Albanian (Geg variety) / Stefan Schumacher
- The perfect system in Latin / Robert Crellin
- Calquing a quirk : the perfect in the languages of Europe / Bridget Drinka
- The perfect in context in texts in English, Sistani Balochi and New Testament Greek / Stephen H. Levinsohn
- Indo-European perfects in typological perspective / Östen Dahl.