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Kölligan, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-3134-8398 (2019). Greek and the Indo-European Verb. Mnemosyne, 72 (4). 673 - 703. LEIDEN: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS. ISSN 1568-525X

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Abstract

This article reviews Andreas Willi's study of the history and prehistory of the Greek and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) verbal system which tries to put the data of one of the 'classical' languages of PIE reconstruction back onto the centre stage after much attention has been given to Anatolian (Hittite, etc.) and Tocharian in recent decades. It argues that in the earliest reconstructable phase PIE had ergative alignment and that the switch to nominative-accusative alignment triggered a series of changes leading to the distribution of stem formations found in Greek and other ancient PIE languages (root aorists, reduplicated aorists and presents, thematic aorists and presents, s-aorists and s-futures, etc.). The review tries to show that the study presents a series of thought-provoking and well-argued hypotheses, while with its focus on prehistory its philological analyses tend to rely on a few chosen examples.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kölligan, Daniel UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3134-8398 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-138601
DOI:	10.1163/1568525X-12342700
Journal or Publication Title:	Mnemosyne
Volume:	72
Number:	4
Page Range:	673 - 703
Date:	2019
Publisher:	BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
Place of Publication:	LEIDEN
ISSN:	1568-525X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Classics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13860