{"id":1457,"date":"2011-04-09T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2011-03-30T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:37:19","slug":"grammatical-change-in-indo-european-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Grammatical change in Indo-European languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Grammatical change in Indo-European languages<\/strong>:<strong> <\/strong>Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European linguistics at the XVIIIth international conference on historical linguistics, Montreal, 2007. Ed. by <strong>Vit Bubenik<\/strong>, <strong>John Hewson<\/strong>, and <strong>Sarah Rose<\/strong>. (Current issues in linguistic theory 305.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xx, 262. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/grammatical-change-in-indo-european-languages\/oclc\/495416683&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027248213<\/a>. $158 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/~linguistics\/faculty\/profile_penner.html\"><strong>Nikolai Penner<\/strong><\/a>, <em>McMaster University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This volume consists of seventeen articles in five thematic sections selected from presentations at the workshop, Grammatical Changes in Indo-European Languages, held at the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al in August 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Section A contains five articles on gender, animacy, and number. <strong>Silvia Luraghi<\/strong>\u2019s paper on the origin of the *-<em>h<sub>2<\/sub><\/em><sub> <\/sub>suffix in Indo-European (IE) is followed by an article on cognitive categories and noun classification by <strong>Maria M. Manoliu<\/strong> that examines the reduction from the threefold noun class of Latin tothe twofold system of the Romance languages. Next, <strong>Hans H. Hock<\/strong> focuses on the resolution of mixed-gender antecedents through a \u2018nearest conjunct\u2019 agreement strategy. <strong>Kyongjoon Kwon<\/strong> looks at the development of literacy in Early East Slavic, and argues that the Old Novgorod dialect developed the grammatical category of animacy much earlier than the other Slavic dialects. Finally, <strong>In\u00e9s Fern\u00e1ndez-Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez<\/strong>\u2019s article deals with the way in which pronominal systems can become noun systems, and examines these processes in Western IE varieties in light of the hypotheses of Joseph Greenberg and Greville Corbett.<\/p>\n<p>Section B\u2014concerning definiteness, case, and prepositions<em>\u2014<\/em>starts with <strong>Brigitte Bauer<\/strong>\u2019s paper on strategies of definiteness in Latin. It is followed by <strong>Vit Bubenik<\/strong>\u2019s article, which analyzes the Middle Iranian genitival construction in the context of the replacement of morphological case distinctions by an analytic phrasal system. The final paper in this section, by <strong>Gag T. T. Haug<\/strong>, is a theory-oriented discussion of the categorical status of \u2018place holders\u2019 in Homeric Greek.<\/p>\n<p>Section C consists of four articles on tense\/aspect and diathesis<em>. <\/em><strong>Henning Andresen<\/strong>\u2019s article aims to establish the relative chronology of the grammaticalization of Common Slavic aspect. Next, the paper by <strong>Driget Drinka<\/strong> on the *<em>-to-\/-no-<\/em> construction in IE assesses the claim that periphrastic formations can be reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European (PIE). The last two papers in this section, by <strong>J. Hewson<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Rose<\/strong>, examine the grammaticalization of Germanic verbal diathesis, and the origin and meaning of the Hittite <em>hi\/mi<\/em> conjugations, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Section D features four papers on morphosyntactic problems: by <strong>Johanna Bar\u00f0dal<\/strong> and <strong>Th\u00f3rhallur Eyth\u00f3rsson<\/strong> on the origin of the oblique-subject-construction in IE languages, <strong>Azam Estaji<\/strong> on the origin of the <em>ezafe <\/em>construction in Persian, <strong>Hakyung Jung<\/strong> on the development of the North Russian <em>be<\/em>-perfect construction, and <strong>Eugenio R. Luj\u00e1n<\/strong> on the process of grammaticalization of *<em>k<sup>w<\/sup>i-\/k<sup>w<\/sup>o-<\/em> relative clauses in PIE.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth section of the collection consists of a paper by <strong>Lu\u00eds Garcia-Ram\u00f3n<\/strong> examining the reconstruction of inflectional categories in IE.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to the memory of Carol F. Justus, the volume is a solid collection of articles in historical linguistics that will appeal to anyone interested in language change and the development of the IE languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammatical change in Indo-European languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European linguistics at the XVIIIth international conference on historical linguistics, Montreal, 2007. Ed. by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, and Sarah Rose. (Current issues in linguistic theory 305.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xx, 262. ISBN 9789027248213. $158 (Hb). 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