{"product_id":"the-gothic-resultative-non-agentive-verbs-and-perfect-expression-in-early-germanic-9789004448124","title":"The Gothic Resultative: Non-agentive Verbs and Perfect Expression in Early Germanic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGothic 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210816151895,"sku":"9789004448124","price":150.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gothic-resultative-non-agentive-verbs-and-perfect-expression-in-early-germanic-9789004448124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}