Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors' Foreword ix
4. My memories of Carol Justus xix
5. Section A. Gender, animacy and number
6. The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective 3
7. The animacy fallacy: Cognitive categories and noun classification 15
8. Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents 29
9. The early development of animacy in Novgorod: Evoking the vocative anew 43
10. The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties 55
11. Section B. Definiteness, case and prepostions
12. Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European 71
13. The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian 89
14. Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? (And what's the difference anyway?) 103
15. Section C. Tense/aspect and diathesis
16. On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronology 123
17. The * -to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle? 141
18. Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis in Germanic 159
19. The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite hi/mi conjugations 169
20. Section D. Morphosyntax
21. The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison 179
22. Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntax 195
23. Possessive subjects, nominalization and ergativity in North Russian 207
24. On the grammaticalization of * kw i -/ kw o - relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European 221
25. Section E. Reconstruction of inflectional categories in Indo-European
26. Formal correspondences, different functions: On the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European 237
27. Author index 251
28. Index of languages and dialects 255
29. Index of subjects 259