Tense and aspect in Indo-European languages : theory, typology, diachrony
John Hewson, Vit Bubenik
This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.
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This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.
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[目次]
1. Authors' Preface, pv
2. List of Abbreviations, pxi
3. Chapter 1: Tense and Aspect: Description and Theory (by Hewson, John), p1
4. Section A: Languages with the original three-aspect system: present - aorist - perfect
5. Chapter 2: The Verbal System of Ancient Greek (by Hewson, John), p24
6. Chapter 3: The Verbal System of Vedic and Classical Sanskrit (by Bubenik, Vit), p46
7. Section B: Languages with the original present - aorist system and innovative perfect
8. Chapter 4: The Verbal System of Classical Armenian (by Bubenik, Vit), p67
9. Chapter 5: The Verbal System of Old Church Slavic (by Bubenik, Vit), p82
10. Chapter 6: The Verbal System of Albanian (by Bubenik, Vit), p103
11. Chapter 7: The Verbal System of Tocharian (by Bubenik, Vit), p125
12. Section C: Languages with a three-tense system
13. Chapter 8: Tense and Aspect in Baltic (by Hewson, John), p142
14. Chapter 9: Tense and Aspect in Celtic (by Hewson, John), p165
15. Chapter 10: The Latin Verbal System (by Hewson, John), p189
16. Section D: Languages which merged the original aorist and perfect into the preterit
17. Chapter 11: The Verbal System of Germanic (Gothic, Old English) (by Hewson, John), p209
18. Chapter 12: The Verbal System of Anatolian (Hittite) (by Bubenik, Vit), p229
19. Section E: Later Developments
20. Chapter 13: From Ancient to Modern Greek (by Bubenik, Vit), p249
21. Chapter 14: Development of Modern Indic Tense-Aspect System (by Bubenik, Vit), p265
22. Chapter 15: Development of Modern Slavic Tense-Aspect System (by Bubenik, Vit), p283
23. Chapter 16: Development of Modern Iranian Tense-Aspect System (by Bubenik, Vit), p304
24. Chapter 17: From Latin to Modern Romance (by Hewson, John), p314
25. Chapter 18: Tense and Aspect in Modern Germanic (by Hewson, John), p331