The Gothic resultative : : non-agentive verbs and perfect expression in early Germanic / / R. Moses Katz.
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...
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Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics ; Volume 22 |
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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. |
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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.