UID:
almahu_9949721588802882
Format:
1 online resource (435 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783823392743
Series Statement:
Sprachvergleich 2
Content:
The book investigates multiple preverbs (PVs) in some ancient IE languages (Vedic, Homeric Greek, Old Church Slavic, and Old Irish). After an introduction, it opens with the theoretical framework and a typologically-oriented overview of PVs. It then gives quantitative data about multiple PV composites and carries out philological, formal, semantic, and syntactic analyses on them. The comparison among these languages suggests that a process of accumulation lies behind multiple PV composites. Also, PV ordering is explained by different factors: semantic solidarity between PVs and verbs PVs' tendency to be specified by event participants, PVs' etymologies, influence from other languages. The book also contributes to casting light on the reasons for PVs' grammaticalization and lexicalization. These are two distinct reanalyses triggered by the same factor, i.e. the mentioned semantic solidarity, which makes PVs be felt as redundant. They are thus reassigned salient pieces of information as actional markers (grammaticalization) or reinterpreted as part of the verb (lexicalization).
Note:
[1. Auflage]
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1. Introduction 2. Theoretical background 3. Preverbs: an overview 4. Multiple preverbs in Vedic 5. Multiple preverbs in Homeric Greek 6. Multiple preverbs in Old Church Slavic 7. Multiple preverbs in Old Irish 8. Multiple preverbs in ancient Indo-European languages: differences, similarities and concluding remarks
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783823301257
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783823382744
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
URL:
https://elibrary.narr.digital/book/99.125005/9783823392743
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