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Book SynopsisGothic is unique among Germanic languages in regards to the ways it expresses non-agentive actions. It both retains a formal passive and has two periphrastic passives. In addition it presents an intransitive verb class with generally inchoative meaning. R. Moses Katz examines the semantics of these categories and shows how they provide a robust non-agentive paradigm in Gothic, including a functional, result-state perfect in the passive. In two parts, he examines first the inchoative verb and then the periphrastic passive. He proposes that the development of both types is underpinned by a single argument structure based on the resultative, a coordinated event type that links a transition with a resulting state.
Table of ContentsList of Tables Notations Part 1 Preliminaries 1 Introduction 1.1 Objective and Scope 1.2 Overview of the Gothic Corpus 1.3 The Gothic Translation Process 1.4 Translation and the Gothic Vorlage 2 Grammatical Theories and Constructs 2.1 Voice 2.2 Unaccusativity 2.3 Tense, Mood and Aspect 2.4 Telicity 2.5 Event-Boundedness 2.6 The Vendler Taxonomy of Verbal Types 2.7 The Copula and the Auxiliary 2.8 Resultativity and Its Types 2.9 Resultativity in Distributed Morphology 3 The Perfect 3.1 Characteristics of the Perfect 3.2 Construction and Readings of the Perfect 3.3 The Indefinite Past Theory of the Perfect 3.4 Semantics of the Perfect via the Indefinite Past Theory 4 Language-Specific Verbal Systems 4.1 The TMA System of Koine Greek 4.2 The TMA System of Gothic Part 2 The -nan Verb in Gothic 5 Historical Development of Nasal Verb Classes 6 Descriptive Approaches to the -nan Verb 6.1 The Passive Approach 6.2 The Intransitive-Inchoative Approach 6.3 Non-inchoative Approaches 7 Positioning -nan Verbs in Developmental Systems 7.1 System of Valence: -nan as Detransitivized Predicates 7.2 System of Diathesis: -nan as Middle Voice 7.3 System of Causation: -nan as Anticausative 7.4 System of Argument Structure: -nan as Resultative 8 Toward a Semantic Description of -nan Verbs 8.1 -nan Verbs and Adjectives 8.2 -nan verbs and Passive Participles 8.3 Section Summary: Destatal and Deadjectival 8.4 Statal Semantics: The aukan System 8.5 End-Point Semantics 8.6 Examples of Seemingly Non-fientive Semantics in -nan Verbs 8.7 Summary 9 Toward a Syntactic Description of -nan Verbs 9.1 Structural Model of Resultative Constructions 9.2 A Semantic Characterization of Deadjectival Fientives and -nan Verbs 9.3 Implications 9.4 Summary: Perfectivization as a Constraint on Aspect Part 3 The Periphrastic Passive in Gothic 10 Views of the Periphrastic Passive 10.1 Periphrasis as “False” Passive 10.2 Periphrasis as Passive and Resultative 10.3 Lexical Aspect as an Interpretive Means of Choosing a Periphrasis 10.4 Lexical Aspect as a Systematic Means of Choosing a Periphrastic 10.5 Consensus Concerning Lexical Aspect in Gothic 11 Periphrasis as a Method for Translation 11.1 Proposal 11.2 Previous Analyses 11.3 Methodology 11.4 The wisan Periphrasis: Overview 11.5 The wairþan Periphrasis: Overview 12 Past-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates 12.1 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist 12.2 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect 12.3 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle 12.4 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Imperfect 12.5 Comparison of the Gothic Periphrases in the Past Tense 13 Present-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates 13.1 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect 13.2 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle 13.3 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Present 13.4 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist 14 Statistical Analysis of Periphrastic Passives 14.1 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic Past and Non-past 14.2 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic was + PP vs. warþ + PP 15 Comparison of Periphrastic Passives 16 Resultativity as a Means to a Full Passive Paradigm 17 Proposing a Perfect Passive Semantics 18 Toward a Syntactic Description of Gothic Periphrases 19 Diachronic Implications 19.1 The State of the ‘Be’ Passive in Gothic 19.2 The State of the ‘Become’ Passive in Gothic Appendix 1: Gothic Periphrases Appendix 2: Clausal Features of Gothic Periphrases References Index
