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Aspectual oppositions from Proto-Indo-European to Latin

Abstract

In this paper, I attempt to trace the evolution of the aspect system from Indo-European times to the historically attested Latin system. The focus is not on the study of single changes, but on providing an overview which shows what diachronic typology can contribute to the history of the Latin aspect system.

Abstract

In this paper, I attempt to trace the evolution of the aspect system from Indo-European times to the historically attested Latin system. The focus is not on the study of single changes, but on providing an overview which shows what diachronic typology can contribute to the history of the Latin aspect system.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Synchronic and diachronic evidence for parallels between noun phrases and sentences 13
  6. The development of tense, mood, and aspect in the creole languages, and the typology of affix order 43
  7. Aspectual oppositions from Proto-Indo-European to Latin 61
  8. On the development of actionality, tense, and viewpoint from Early to Late Latin 73
  9. Continuity and change: The history of two Greek tenses 105
  10. Actionality and aspect in Hittite 131
  11. Imperfectivity and complete events 149
  12. Predicative verbs of transition in Portuguese and Spanish: A cognitive approach to aspect, aktionsart, and tense 167
  13. The Old Nordic Middle Voice in the pre-literary period: Questions of grammaticalisation and cliticisation 185
  14. The relevance of tense and aspect in Semitic Languages: The case of Hebrew and Arabic 221
  15. The verb phrase in the Kerebe language 249
  16. Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo: The case of persistive, and some other markers in Bantu 283
  17. Indexicals as sources of case markers in Australian languages 299
  18. Differential object marking in Sahidic Coptic 323
  19. Index 345
Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses
This chapter is in the book Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.103.05hau

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Synchronic and diachronic evidence for parallels between noun phrases and sentences 13
  6. The development of tense, mood, and aspect in the creole languages, and the typology of affix order 43
  7. Aspectual oppositions from Proto-Indo-European to Latin 61
  8. On the development of actionality, tense, and viewpoint from Early to Late Latin 73
  9. Continuity and change: The history of two Greek tenses 105
  10. Actionality and aspect in Hittite 131
  11. Imperfectivity and complete events 149
  12. Predicative verbs of transition in Portuguese and Spanish: A cognitive approach to aspect, aktionsart, and tense 167
  13. The Old Nordic Middle Voice in the pre-literary period: Questions of grammaticalisation and cliticisation 185
  14. The relevance of tense and aspect in Semitic Languages: The case of Hebrew and Arabic 221
  15. The verb phrase in the Kerebe language 249
  16. Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo: The case of persistive, and some other markers in Bantu 283
  17. Indexicals as sources of case markers in Australian languages 299
  18. Differential object marking in Sahidic Coptic 323
  19. Index 345
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