This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues concerning the comparison of syntactic structrures within the language family and the reconstruction of their common ancestor.
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1Historical Syntax and Indo-European Linguistics
2Accessing Indo-European
3The Uniformitarian Principle
4PIE Dialectology
5Theoretical Framework
2 What Is Syntax?
1Introduction
2Multiple Heads: Predicates over the Object in Indo-European
3Non-hierarchical Syntactic Relations: Coordination in Indo-European
4Double-Sided Relations: Nominal Apposition in Indo-European
5Genitive and Dative
6Conclusion
3 Historical Syntax and Its Mechanisms
1Introduction
2Reanalysis
3Extension
4Historical Syntax and Language Contact
5Conclusion
4 The Comparative Method: Internal Aspects
1Introduction
2Internal Description
3Internal Reconstruction
4Internal Comparison
5Conclusion
5 The Comparative Method: External Aspects
1External Comparison
2External Reconstruction
3External Description
4Conclusion
6 Historical Syntax and Morphological Marking
1Introduction
2The Submerged Genitive in Indo-European
3Demonstratives and Gender Attraction in Indo-European
4Non-Canonical Subjects in the Indo-European Languages
5Transitivity and Ergativity in Indo-European
6The Classical Armenian Perfect and Its Constructions
7Head-Marking: The Ezfe-Construction in Iranian
8Adjectival Definiteness in Germanic
9Conclusion
7 Historical Syntax and Syntactic Autonomy
1Introduction
2Elliptical Genitives
3Elliptical Adjectives
4Adpositions and Verbal Constructions in Ancient Greek
5The Definite Article and Possession in Germanic and Celtic
6Subordination and Syntactic Autonomy
7Conclusion
8 Historical Syntax and Semantics
1Introduction
2The Meaning of Number in Indo-European
3Grammatical Gender
4Historical Syntax and Lexical Semantics
5Apudessives in Indo-European
6Cases and Semantic Roles
7The Evolution of Locative Roles in Indo-European
8Conclusion
9 Historical Syntax and Syntactic Linearity
1Introduction
2Verb-Initial in Indo-European
3Split Possession and Position Rules in Albanian
4Word Order Implications: Negations and Adverbs
5Indo-European Tmesis
6Conclusion
Conclusion
1Syntactic Analysis and Its Objects
2Causality in Historical Syntax
3Historical Syntax and the Comparative Method
4The Syntactic Profile of Indo-European
5A Retrospective Glance
Bibliography
Index notionum
Index linguarum
Index verborum
Index locorum
Daniel Petit, PhD (1996), Habilitation (2002), is Professor of Historical Linguistics of the Indo-European languages at the Ecole normal supérieure (ENS) and Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), both in Paris (France). He has published monographs and articles on the Indo-European languages, with particular emphasis on Ancient Greek and Baltic languages.
