From case to adposition : the development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages / John Hewson & Vit Bubenik.

By:

Hewson, John, 1930-

Contributor(s):

Bubeník, Vít, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 280.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 419 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789027292964
9027292965
1282155083
9781282155084

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From case to adposition.DDC classification:

415 22

LOC classification:

P671 .H49 2006eb

Other classification:

17.15
18.01

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Contents:

From Case to Adposition; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; AUTHORS' PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS; ABBREVIATIONS OF PRIMARY LITERATURE; ABBREVIATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS; 1. TYPOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN INDO-EUROPEAN: FROM PARADIGM TO PHRASE; 2. THE SYNTAX OF THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE; 3. CASES AND PREPOSITIONS IN ANCIENT GREEK; 4. CASES AND POSTPOSITIONS IN HITTITE; 5. CASES AND POSTPOSITIONS IN INDO-ARYAN; 6. CASES AND PREPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN; 7. ARMENIAN; 8. FROM OLD TO MODERN SLAVIC; 9. BALTIC LANGUAGES; 10. FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN CELTIC.

Summary: In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older forms of IE, by forming fixed phrases with nominal elements, a pattern later followed in the development of a configurational NP (article + nominal) and VP (auxiliary + verbal). The authors follow this evolution through almost four thousand year.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-409) and indexes.

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In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older forms of IE, by forming fixed phrases with nominal elements, a pattern later followed in the development of a configurational NP (article + nominal) and VP (auxiliary + verbal). The authors follow this evolution through almost four thousand year.

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