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Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond.
Amsterdam :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2020.
Under the general editorship: R. Crellin
Contains descriptions of the perfect in Indo-European languages.
Chapters
Inglese G., Luraghi S., , in: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond.: Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2020. P. 377–410.
In Hittite, the meaning associated with the Proto-Indo-European perfect, i.e. to indicate a state resulting from a change-of-state event, was covered by compound verb forms consisting of the -ant- participle plus the finite forms of the verbs ḫar(k)- “have” and eš- “be”. The origin and the function of this construction have been a matter of debate. In this chapter, we review ...
Added: July 5, 2021
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Kassian A., Starostin G., Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2025 Vol. 12 Article 682
In this paper, we present a brief critical analysis of the data, methodology, and results of the most recent publication on the computational phylogeny of the Indo-European family (Heggarty et al. 2023), comparing them to previous efforts in this area carried out by (roughly) the same team of scholars (informally designated as the “New Zealand ...
Added: June 9, 2025
Volkov O., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2023 Т. 82 № 4 С. 82–90
In the present paper I make several observations on the semantics of Russian particle uzhe and alike. I suggest that contrastivity effect is central to its semantics. Crosslinguistically, such particles tend to develop into perfect markers in the course of grammaticalization process. I argue that it is exactly the presence of contrastive meaning in the ...
Added: February 13, 2025
Михайлова Т. А., Volkonskaya M. A., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2024 Т. 28 № 2 С. 1136–1151
The paper discusses the semantic and historical-cultural motivations for the gradual loss of the Indo-European designation of man, husband (*u̯ǐro-), which took place independently and in parallel in the Romance and Germanic languages, as well as its partial replacement with the lexeme having a general meaning 'human being.' The loss of Lat. vir during the ...
Added: July 2, 2024
Melenchenko M., Вопросы языкознания 2023 № 6 С. 120–137
This paper describes the semantics of one of the verb forms in Shughni, traditionally called Perfect. This form displays many areally-motivated typological similarities with perfects in other languages of Western and Central Asia. In particular, Shughni has developed an evidential opposition between the Preterite and the Perfect, in which the Perfect is used for non-witnessed ...
Added: December 27, 2023
Plungian V., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2016 Т. 12 № 2 С. 7–36
Статья открывает сборник статей, посвященный типологии глагольной граммемы перфекта в языках мира. Отмечается, что можно выделить три круга проблем, связанных с типологическим описанием перфекта. Первая и самая очевидная сложность – это определение семантики соответствующих глагольных показателей. Сущности, отождествляемые как перфект, демонстрируют высокую степень полисемии, контексты их употреблений в разных языках, как правило, не совпадают, иногда ...
Added: November 11, 2023
Plungian V., Урманчиева А. Ю., Slovĕne 2017 Т. 6 № 2 С. 13–56
Перфект, как известно, является одной из самых загадочных форм старославянского языка, семантика которой упорно не поддается описанию. Старославянские тексты представляют собой переводы (прежде всего — с греческого), и в них в значительной степени наблюдается калькирование как в сфере лексики, так и в сфере грамматических форм и конструкций. Но именно перфект нарушает эту картину: соответствия перфектных ...
Added: November 11, 2023
Plungian V., Урманчиева А. Ю., Slavisticna Revija 2018 Т. 66 № 4 С. 421–440
В работе предпринята попытка приблизиться к пониманию семантики старославянского перфекта — аналитической глагольной формы, состоящей из l-причастия смыслового глагола и вспомогательного глагола byti в презенсе. Выделены типичные контексты употребления данной формы; основной задачей исследования является оценка получившегося «семантического портрета» старославянского перфекта с точки зрения типологических ожиданий, сформировавшихся в отношении перфектных форм в языках мира. Показано, ...
Added: November 11, 2023
Ermolova M., Slovĕne 2022 Т. 11 № 1 С. 245–280
The article analyzes the hypothesis about the participial functioning of the l-form in the history of the Russian language in the light of Russian dialectal data and the material of the other Slavic languages. Many facts that confirm this hypothesis are found both in Russian dialects and Slavic languages. The first part of the paper ...
Added: January 27, 2023
Verhees S., Languages of the Caucasus 2021 Vol. 5 P. 1–68
Languages spoken in contiguous areas tend to have similar systems of evidentiality marking. The Caucasus is part of a large area where systems centered on marking events as not witnessed by the speaker are widespread among genealogically unrelated languages. It is often suggested that Turkic languages could be the source of diffusion in this case, ...
Added: January 18, 2022
Fridman I., В кн.: Исследования по теории грамматики. (Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды Института лингвистических исследований РАН. Т. XII. Ч. 2.)Вып. 7: Типология перфекта.: СПб.: Наука, 2016. С. 637–708.
The paper is devoted to synchronic and diachronic description of
the semantics and pragmatic connotations of the usage of the Perfect in
the literary Amharic language. The morphological structure of the Amharic
Perfect and its peculiarities in Old Amharic texts are described. The
author formulates restrictions imposed upon the use of the Perfect by
systemic factors, or contexts in which ...
Added: September 25, 2021
Dybo A., Этнографическое обозрение 2021 № 4 С. 50–62
The article explicates some methodological principles that should be observed when working with the reconstruction of semantic tokens to the proto-linguistic level, and criticizes the insufficiently clear observance of them in the version of the Afrasian lexical reconstruction proposed in Alexander Militarev’s article on the “Lexical Reconstruction for the Reconstruction of the Prehistory: Proto-Afrasian Terms ...
Added: September 12, 2021
Kassian A., Zhivlov M., Starostin G. et al., Linguistics 2021 Vol. 59 No. 4 P. 949–979
In this article we present a new reconstruction of Indo-European phylogeny based on 13 110-item basic wordlists for protolanguages of IE subgroups (Proto-Germanic, Proto-Slavic, etc.) or ancient languages of the corresponding
subgroups (Hittite, Ancient Greek, etc.). We apply reasonably formal techniques of linguistic data collection and post-processing (onomasiological reconstruction, derivational drift elimination, homoplastic optimization) that have ...
Added: June 24, 2021
Maria Molina, , in: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European.: Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. Ch. 2 P. 35–48.
Hittite and Luwian express degrees of comparison with a rather limited range of structures. For the most part, Hittite uses syntactic and pragmatic means to express comparatives and superlatives — indeed, there are no dedicated suffixal markers for expressing comparison that might correspond to Greek -ιων, -ιστος, -τερος, -τατος, Latin -ior, -issimus, or English -er, -(e)st. The ...
Added: February 14, 2021
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021.
The present volume, the first in a series of Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European typology, is an attempt to give an extensive (mostly synchronic) overview of the morphology and the syntax of constructions expressing comparison in ancient Indo-European languages. The volume covers all the major subphyla of the language family. We tried to present each branch ...
Added: February 14, 2021
Nichols J., Annual Review of Linguistics 2021 Vol. 7 P. 351–369
Recent progress in comparative linguistics, distributional typology, and linguistic geography allows a unified model of Uralic prehistory to take shape. Proto-Uralic first introduced an eastern grammatical profile to central and western Eurasia, where it has remained quite stable. Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic had no connection, either genealogical or areal, until the spreading Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European ...
Added: December 10, 2020
Kulikov L., , in: The Indo-European Languages.: L.: Routledge, 2017. Ch. 5 P. 205–213.
THis is a short overview of the linguistic features of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, with a representative bibliography.
Indo-Iranian languages (another, outdated and quite misleading term is “Aryan”), which form a major branch of the Indo-European language family, are spoken by more than a billion of speakers occupying an immense territory from ...
Added: October 18, 2020
L.: Routledge, 2017.
This book presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within the Indo-European language family.
With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and ...
Added: October 18, 2020
Barðdal J., Kulikov L., Pooth R. et al., Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 2020 Vol. 56 No. 3 P. 413–449
The goal of this article is to introduce to the field a particular subtype of valency- reducing strategies, referred to as oblique anticausativization below. This subtype differs from more common and better known dependent-marking types, such as, for instance, the canonical anticausative. Instead, oblique anticausatives are characterized by the preservation of the object case of ...
Added: October 13, 2020
Keidan A., Kulikov L., Lavidas N., Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 2020 Vol. 56 No. 3 P. 373–377
This paper gives a short survey of the morphosyntactic features shared by several branches or individual languages within Indo-European, grouping together, traditionally called isoglosses, such as verbal augment or the development of the new agglutinating cases. Subsequently, the authors offer a brief overview of the contribution to this special issue of the journal dedicated to ...
Added: October 13, 2020
Lavidas N., Kulikov L., , in: Reconstructing Syntax.: Leiden: Brill, 2020. Ch. 7 P. 289–313.
The aim of this article is to examine the directionality of change in Voice in relation to Tense/Aspect, foremost based on evidence from Greek as well as additional evidence from Early Vedic. Starting with the hypothesis that in (standard) Proto-Indo-European a number of innovations resulted in the introduction of some elements of the
Perfect-Stative inflection into the Present ...
Added: October 13, 2020
Leiden: Brill, 2020.
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and ...
Added: October 13, 2020
Johnson C., Kerkhof P. A., Kulikov L. et al., Diachronica 2019 Vol. 36 No. 4 P. 463–508
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the ...
Added: October 11, 2020
Fedotov M., В кн.: ВАПросы языкознания: Мегасборник наностатей. Сб. ст. к юбилею В. А. Плунгяна.: М.: Буки Веди, 2020. С. 467–475.
В статье представлена попытка уточнить теоретическое описание значения перфекта — точнее, целой группы родственных перфектных значений. В первую очередь демонстрируется, что такие значения вводят в семантику высказывания сразу два пропозициональных компонента, с каждым из которых связано своё «окно наблюдения». ...
Added: October 6, 2020
Sichinava D., Вопросы языкознания 2019 № 6 С. 134–140
A volume on perfect in World Englishes and diachronical corpora reviewed. In the articles included in the collection both new language material and new techniques are used. The new material are the regional varieties of English, the so-called “World Englishes”, which sometimes differ quite significantly in the use of perfect forms (“Present Perfect friendliness”) and ...
Added: December 7, 2019