Towards a Cognitive Analysis of the Turkish Aspectual System

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CONVERGENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH SLAVONIC AND GREEK PRONOMINAL SYSTEMS

Section 1 introduces one of the salient Balkanisms - the 'proleptic use of pronouns', called crossindexing of the direct and indirect objects / clitic doubling constructions - in the context of other Balkanisms. The necessary diachronic background for the present study, case syncretism and the emergence of the postpositive article in South Slavonic languages, is provided in 2 and 3. The development of the Bulgaro-Macedonian pronominal system from that of Old Church Slavonic is outlined in 4, and the parallel development of the Greek system in 5. The current controversy regarding the synchronic status of Modern Greek and Bulgaro-Macedonian clitics is addressed in 6. It is demonstrated that pronominal clitics of Modern Greek cannot be considered to be bound morphemes and that Macedonian clitics stand a better chance to qualify for the status of bound morphemes / affixes vis-a-vis those of Greek but also those of closely related Bulgarian. Section 8 attempts to establish a causal nexus between the loss of case and the emergence of crossindexing of the recipient / beneficiary and the patient by means of clitic doubling constructions. Modern Greek went as far as Middle Bulgaro-Macedonian before the loss of case marking on the definite article; Macedon ian, however, converged with Greek in favouring the strategy of proclisis vs. Bulgarian enclisis: ton=vlepo, ton=j6 (Greek) and go=gledam sinot vs. gledam=go, sina (Bulgarian) '[ see the son'. Furthermore, only Macedonian demarked this construction in that the doubling is necessary outside pragmatic contexts. Morphological corollaries are the uninterruptibility of the clitic block recipient=patient and its immediate attachment to the verb in Macedonian (vs. Bulgarian). Some desiderata for further typological and functional research along the lines of the present study are outlined in 7 and 9

Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages

Intro -- DEVELOPMENT OF TENSE/ASPECT IN SEMITIC IN THE CONTEXT OF AFRO-ASIATIC LANGUAGES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Foreword -- Theoretical framework -- 0.1 The role of ablaut in the historical morphology of Afro-Asiatic languages -- 0.2 Grammaticalization -- 0.3 Word and paradigm model -- 0.4 'Chronogenetic' approach -- 0.5 Trajectories toward analytic constructions during the later stages -- 0.6 Linguistic methods of analyzing written texts -- 0.7 Three aims of this monograph -- Chapter 1. Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages -- 1.1 Classification of Afro-Asiatic languages -- 1.2 Geography and prehistory of Afro-Asiatic languages -- 1.3 Diachronic stages -- 1.4 Some remarks on the development of their nominal systems -- Chapter 2. Semitic aspectual and diathetic systems -- 2.1 Aspect and diathesis in North-East Semitic -- 2.1.1 Aspectual system of Akkadian -- 2.1.2 Middle voice (reflexive/reciprocal diathesis) -- 2.1.3 Passive voice in Akkadian -- 2.1.4 Quasinominals (participles and infinitives) -- 2.2 The situation in Eblaite -- Chapter 3. Central and South Semitic -- 3.1 Ugaritic -- 3.2 Old Aramaic -- 3.3 Old (Biblical) Hebrew -- 3.4 Classical Arabic -- 3.5 South Semitic -- 3.5.1 Ethio-Semitic (Gǝʕǝz) -- 3.5.2 Modern Semitic of Southern Arabia (MSSA) -- Chapter 4. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic aspectual and diathetic system -- 4.1 Reconstructing the Proto-Semitic aspectual and diathetic system -- 4.2 Evidence of Central and South Semitic languages -- 4.3 Modal categories of Akkadian and Classical Arabic -- 4.4 Reconstructing the PS Imperfective -- 4.5 Some parallels with PIE -- Chapter 5. Berber aspectual and diathetic system -- 5.1 Atlas-Berber -- 5.1.1 Tamazight -- 5.1.2 Tashelhiyt5.2 Northern Berber - Taqbaylit -- 5.3 Twareg -- 5.4 Berber parallels with Semitic -- 5.5 Berber diathetic system -- 5.6 Reconstructing the Proto-Berber aspectual and diathetic system -- Chapter 6. Cushitic aspectual and diathetic system -- 6.1 North Cushitic (Beja) -- 6.2 The role of ablaut in Beja -- 6.3 Evidence for the suffix conjugation in East Cushitic -- 6.4 Reconstructing the PSBC aspectual and diathetic system -- Chapter 7. Old Egyptian aspectual and diathetic system -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Old Egyptian aspectual core system -- 7.3 Mood and modality -- 7.4 On the semi-ergative typology of Old Egyptian -- 7.5 Old Egyptian quasinominals (infinitives and participles) -- 7.6 Old Egyptian aspectual system and its Semitic, Berber and Cushitic counterparts -- 7.7 Tense and Aspect in Late(r) Egyptian -- Chapter 8. Chadic aspectual and diathetic system -- 8.1 The verbal system of West Chadic languages -- 8.2 East Chadic languages -- 8.3 Relative chronology of the development in Chadic -- Chapter 9. Reconstructing the Proto-Afro-Asiatic aspectual and diathetic system -- 9.1 Reconstructing Proto-Afro-Asiatic prefix and suffix conjugations -- 9.2 The AA background of the Semitic T-stem -- 9.3 Reconstructing the PAA aspectual and diathetic system -- 9.4 Reconstructing Proto-Afro-Asiatic quasinominal categories -- Chapter 10. Typology and universals of tense and aspect -- 10.1 The exploitation of ablaut for aspectual purposes -- 10.2 Indo-European parallels to the development of the inflectional perfect in Semitic -- 10.3 Turkic parallels to the aspectual trichotomy in AA and IE phyla -- 10.4 The establishment of the Perfect and the Middle in Semitic -- 10.5 The notional proximity of the Perfective and Perfect (Retrospective) -- 10.6 From aspect-prominent to tense-prominent typology -- 10.7 Analytic formations in Ancient IE and AA languages10.8 Typology and universals of tense and aspect -- 10.9 The relationship of quasinominal forms to their finite counterparts -- 10.10 Contribution of AA to general Historical Linguistics -- Postscript -- References -- Index of authors -- Subject indexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Restructuring of the Iranian tense/aspect/mood system

The purpose of this paper is to outline the fundamental grammaticalization and degrammat(icalizat)ion processes observable in the restructuring of the tense/aspect/mood systems of the West Iranian languages during their historical development. Their core aspectual systems will be presented as consisting of three categories: Imperfective, Perfective and Perfect