The Gothic resultative : : non-agentive verbs and perfect expression in early Germanic / / R. Moses Katz.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics ; Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Katz, R. Moses,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Gothic is unique among Germanic languages in regards to the ways it expresses non-agentive actions. It both retains a formal passive and has two periphrastic passives. In addition it presents an intransitive verb class with generally inchoative meaning. R. Moses Katz examines the semantics of these categories and shows how they provide a robust non-agentive paradigm in Gothic, including a functional, result-state perfect in the passive. In two parts, he examines first the inchoative verb and then the periphrastic passive. He proposes that the development of both types is underpinned by a single argument structure based on the resultative, a coordinated event type that links a transition with a resulting state.

Table of Contents

List of Tables -- Notations -- Part 1 Preliminaries -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Objective and Scope -- 1.2 Overview of the Gothic Corpus -- 1.3 The Gothic Translation Process -- 1.4 Translation and the Gothic Vorlage -- 2 Grammatical Theories and Constructs -- 2.1 Voice -- 2.2 Unaccusativity -- 2.3 Tense, Mood and Aspect -- 2.4 Telicity -- 2.5 Event-Boundedness -- 2.6 The Vendler Taxonomy of Verbal Types -- 2.7 The Copula and the Auxiliary -- 2.8 Resultativity and Its Types -- 2.9 Resultativity in Distributed Morphology -- 3 The Perfect -- 3.1 Characteristics of the Perfect -- 3.2 Construction and Readings of the Perfect -- 3.3 The Indefinite Past Theory of the Perfect -- 3.4 Semantics of the Perfect via the Indefinite Past Theory -- 4 Language-Specific Verbal Systems -- 4.1 The TMA System of Koine Greek -- 4.2 The TMA System of Gothic -- Part 2 The -nan Verb in Gothic -- 5 Historical Development of Nasal Verb Classes -- 6 Descriptive Approaches to the -nan Verb -- 6.1 The Passive Approach -- 6.2 The Intransitive-Inchoative Approach -- 6.3 Non-inchoative Approaches -- 7 Positioning -nan Verbs in Developmental Systems -- 7.1 System of Valence: -nan as Detransitivized Predicates -- 7.2 System of Diathesis: -nan as Middle Voice -- 7.3 System of Causation: -nan as Anticausative -- 7.4 System of Argument Structure: -nan as Resultative.

8 Toward a Semantic Description of -nan Verbs -- 8.1 -nan Verbs and Adjectives -- 8.2 -nan verbs and Passive Participles -- 8.3 Section Summary: Destatal and Deadjectival -- 8.4 Statal Semantics: The aukan System -- 8.5 End-Point Semantics -- 8.6 Examples of Seemingly Non-fientive Semantics in -nan Verbs -- 8.7 Summary -- 9 Toward a Syntactic Description of -nan Verbs -- 9.1 Structural Model of Resultative Constructions -- 9.2 A Semantic Characterization of Deadjectival Fientives and -nan Verbs -- 9.3 Implications -- 9.4 Summary: Perfectivization as a Constraint on Aspect -- Part 3 The Periphrastic Passive in Gothic -- 10 Views of the Periphrastic Passive -- 10.1 Periphrasis as "False" Passive -- 10.2 Periphrasis as Passive and Resultative -- 10.3 Lexical Aspect as an Interpretive Means of Choosing a Periphrasis -- 10.4 Lexical Aspect as a Systematic Means of Choosing a Periphrastic -- 10.5 Consensus Concerning Lexical Aspect in Gothic -- 11 Periphrasis as a Method for Translation -- 11.1 Proposal -- 11.2 Previous Analyses -- 11.3 Methodology -- 11.4 The wisan Periphrasis: Overview -- 11.5 The wairþan Periphrasis: Overview -- 12 Past-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates -- 12.1 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist -- 12.2 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect -- 12.3 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle -- 12.4 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Imperfect -- 12.5 Comparison of the Gothic Periphrases in the Past Tense -- 13 Present-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates -- 13.1 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect -- 13.2 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle -- 13.3 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Present -- 13.4 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist -- 14 Statistical Analysis of Periphrastic Passives -- 14.1 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic Past and Non-past -- 14.2 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic was + PP vs. warþ + PP -- 15 Comparison of Periphrastic Passives -- 16 Resultativity as a Means to a Full Passive Paradigm -- 17 Proposing a Perfect Passive Semantics -- 18 Toward a Syntactic Description of Gothic Periphrases -- 19 Diachronic Implications -- 19.1 The State of the 'Be' Passive in Gothic -- 19.2 The State of the 'Become' Passive in Gothic -- Appendix 1: Gothic Periphrases -- Appendix 2: Clausal Features of Gothic Periphrases.