Editors’ foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ foreword vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. The development of the perfect within IE verbal systems 15
7. Chapter 3. Celtic past tenses past and present 49
8. Chapter 4. The development of the perfect in selected Middle and New Germanic languages 95
9. Chapter 5. Perfects in Baltic and Slavic 123
10. Chapter 6. Paradigmatisation of the perfect and resultative in Tocharian 215
11. Chapter 7. The synthetic perfect from Indo-Iranian to Late Vedic 245
12. Chapter 8. The perfect in Middle and New Iranian languages 279
13. Chapter 9. The perfect in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic 311
14. Chapter 10. The perfect in Classical Armenian 351
15. Chapter 11. The Hittite periphrastic perfect 377
16. Chapter 12. The Gothic perfective constructions in contrast to West Germanic 411
17. Chapter 13. The perfect system in Ancient Greek 435
18. Chapter 14. The perfect in Medieval and Modern Greek 483
19. Chapter 15. The perfect system of Old Albanian (Geg variety) 505
20. Chapter 16. The perfect system in Latin 549
21. Chapter 17. Calquing a quirk 591
22. Chapter 18. The perfect in context in texts in English, Sistani Balochi and New Testament Greek 615
23. Chapter 19. Indo-European perfects in typological perspective 635
24. Language Index 669
25. Subject Index 675