Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin 13
5. The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian 57
6. The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages 79
7. Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages 107
8. Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses 133
9. On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic 159
10. Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages 173
11. Subjects and objects with Latin habere and some of its Romance descendants 211
12. Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic) 223
13. Typological change in Vedic 261
14. On the evolution of verbal aspect in insular Celtic 299
15. The anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languages 329
16. Directionality, case and actionality in Hittite 383
17. The case of unaccusatives in Classical Portuguese 411
18. Some historical developments of the verb in Neo-Aramaic 425
19. Contributors 435
20. Index 437