From Indo-European to Latin : the evolution of a morphosyntactic type /
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| Author / Creator: | Kurzová, Helena. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 104 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 104. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220547 |
| Summary: | This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the paradigmatic-flectional stage (or (sub)type). This development is demonstrated in Latin, a language characterized by highy developed inflection, which attests, especially by its verbal system, an alternative way of paradigmatizing the original structure, differing from Old Indian and Greek on which traditional reconstruction was based. <p>The notion of derivative-flectional type is used to try to penetrate to the original form and historical sources of the IE flectional type without presupposing radical typological change between Proto-IE and IE. The author's view differs from the traditional theory of prehistoric change in IE structure (from isolation to flection via agglutination) in that she assumes the origins of flection lie in lexico-derivative categorization.</p> <p>The book is divided into three parts: 1. The Origins and Evolution of the Indo-European Flectional Type 2. The Basic Principles and Origins of the Nominal System and Inflections 3. The Indo-European Origins of the Latin Verbal System.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027277077 9027277079 1283313057 9781283313056 9786613313058 661331305X 1556195583 9781556195587 9027236062 9789027236067 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |