1. Editors' Foreword; 2. My memories of Carol Justus; 3. Section A. Gender, animacy and number; 4. The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective (by Luraghi, Silvia); 5. The animacy fallacy: Cognitive categories and noun classification (by Manoliu, Maria M.); 6. Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 7. The early development of animacy in Novgorod: Evoking the vocative anew (by Kwon, Kyongjoon); 8. The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties (by Fernandez-Ordonez, Inez); 9. Section B. Definiteness, case and prepostions; 10. Strategies of definiteness in Latin: Implications for early Indo-European (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.); 11. The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian (by Bubenik, Vit); 12. Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? (And what's the difference anyway?) (by Haug, Dag T.T.); 13. Section C. Tense/aspect and diathesis; 14. On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronology (by Andersen, Henning); 15. The *-to-/-no- construction of Indo-European: Verbal adjective or past passive participle? (by Drinka, Bridget); 16. Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis in Germanic (by Hewson, John); 17. The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite hi/mi conjugations (by Rose, Sarah); 18. Section D. Morphosyntax; 19. The origin of the oblique-subject construction: An Indo-European comparison (by Barddal, Johanna); 20. Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on syntax (by Estaji, Azam); 21. Possessive subjects, nominalization and ergativity in North Russian (by Jung, Hakyung); 22. On the grammaticalization of *kw i-/kw o- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European (by Lujan, Eugenio R.); 23. Section E. Reconstruction of inflectional categories in Indo-European; 24. Formal correspondences, different functions: On the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European (by Garcia-Ramon, Jose Luis); 25. Author index; 26. Index of languages and dialects; 27. Index of subjects
C'est un volume d'une très grande qualité qui nous est ici proposé.
Dans le monde actuel [...] on est souvent submergé d'articles
écrits à la hâte et qui n'apportent rien de nouveau. Tel n'est pas
le cas ici. On ne saurait trop conseiller la lecture de ce bel
ouvrage à tous les collègues intéressés par la linguistique
historique.
*Daniel Petit, in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris,
Tome 105/2, 2010*
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