Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive - A Study in Areal, General and Historical Linguistics

Klappentext This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb forms by the languages of the Balkan peninsula. Zusammenfassung This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of one of the characteristics shared to some degree by the languages of the Balkan peninsula - Greek! Albanian! Macedonian! Bulgarian! Serbo-Croatian and Romanian - namely the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Towards a definition of finiteness and infinitives; 3. The history of the infinitive in Greek; 4. Albanian; 5. South Slavic; 6. Romanian; 7. On the causes of the Balkan infinitive-loss; 9. Conclusions; Notes; References; Index.

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• Authors: Brian D. Joseph, Joseph Brian D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521105330
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10533-0
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics