The Germanic Strong Verbs
by Mailhammer, RobertFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-07-01
Publisher(s): Mouton De Gruyter
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Summary
Through the use of an innovative methodological framework combining typology, comparative linguistics, historical morphology, and quantitative etymology, this book presents a diachronic analysis of the morphology of the Germanic strong verbs as well as a quantitative and up-to-date picture of the etymological connections between the strong verbs and the Indo-European parent language. It brings out the drastic transformations of the inherited verb system and shows that there are considerably more non-etymologized Germanic strong verbs than hitherto assumed, with telling implications for the genesis of the Proto-Germanic language.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. V |
| Abbreviations | p. X |
| Introduction and preliminaries | p. 1 |
| Subject: The strong verbs of Germanic | p. 1 |
| Internal development vs. external influence | p. 5 |
| A comprehensive theory of external influence | p. 8 |
| Structure of this study | p. 11 |
| Systematized and functionalized ablaut: The morphology of the Germanic strong verbs | p. 15 |
| The foundations of the system: Ablaut and reduplication | p. 15 |
| Ablaut | p. 15 |
| The nature and origin of ablaut in Indo-European | p. 15 |
| Ablaut grades in Indo-European | p. 19 |
| Ablaut patterns and verbal stem formation in Indo-European | p. 22 |
| The position of ablaut in Indo-European verbal morphology | p. 26 |
| Reduplication | p. 32 |
| Reduplication and ablaut in the Germanic strong verbs | p. 33 |
| Reduplication in the Germanic strong verbs | p. 34 |
| Ablaut in the Germanic strong verbs | p. 45 |
| The surface structure of the Germanic verb system | p. 51 |
| A tripartite system: The Germanic strong verbs | p. 53 |
| The primary system: Classes I to V | p. 56 |
| Mechanism | p. 56 |
| A reconstruction of the primary system | p. 57 |
| Class I | p. 60 |
| Class II | p. 62 |
| Class III | p. 63 |
| Class IV | p. 65 |
| Class V | p. 66 |
| Lengthened grade and full grade in classes IV and V | p. 67 |
| Class VI as a model | p. 74 |
| The nominal system as a source | p. 75 |
| Replacement by aorist formations | p. 76 |
| Replacement by an alternative perfect formation | p. 77 |
| Analogical spread | p. 79 |
| Summary: The lengthened grade in classes IV and V | p. 85 |
| The secondary system: Class VI | p. 86 |
| A separate system | p. 87 |
| Origin of class VI | p. 89 |
| Structural properties | p. 103 |
| The safety net system: The reduplicating verbs | p. 104 |
| Preliminary background assumptions | p. 104 |
| Morphological characteristics | p. 108 |
| Vowels | p. 109 |
| Consonants | p. 110 |
| The system of the Germanic strong verbs: A summary | p. 111 |
| Processes of regularization and traces effusion | p. 112 |
| Processes of regularization I: Loss of the aorist, thematization and root-normalization | p. 113 |
| Loss of the aorist | p. 113 |
| Neo-Perfects and thematization | p. 114 |
| Root-normalization I | p. 115 |
| Processes of regularization II: Large-scale root-normalization | p. 116 |
| Irregular vs. regular root vocalism: Zero grade presents in Germanic | p. 117 |
| Cases of normalized zero grade presents: Root normalization II | p. 123 |
| The extent of the regularization of original zero grade presents | p. 129 |
| Summary of chapter two | p. 138 |
| Inheritance vs. acquisition: The etymological situation of the Germanic strong verbs | p. 141 |
| Etymology and Germanic | p. 142 |
| Etymology as a linguistic discipline | p. 142 |
| The position of Germanic in previous etymological research | p. 144 |
| Etymology and the Germanic strong verbs | p. 145 |
| Quantitative approaches and the theoretical background | p. 148 |
| Quantitative approaches | p. 148 |
| Theoretical and methodological background | p. 150 |
| The quality of etymologies | p. 150 |
| Methodological considerations for a quantitative etymological analysis of the Germanic strong verbs | p. 153 |
| The methodological framework | p. 157 |
| Sample categorizations | p. 161 |
| Quantitative analysis of the etymological data | p. 167 |
| Database | p. 167 |
| The etymological situation of the Germanic strong verbs: Results | p. 168 |
| Overall results for the complete corpus | p. 168 |
| Class I | p. 168 |
| Class II | p. 169 |
| Class III | p. 170 |
| Class IV | p. 171 |
| Class V | p. 171 |
| Class VI | p. 172 |
| Reduplicating verbs | p. 173 |
| Discussion and evaluation | p. 174 |
| The primary verbs of Sanskrit | p. 180 |
| The primary verbs of Ancient Greek | p. 181 |
| Contrastive evaluation | p. 182 |
| Summary of chapter three | p. 184 |
| Conclusion and further thoughts | p. 188 |
| Conclusion: The Germanic strong verbs as a new system | p. 188 |
| Implications on the history of Germanic | p. 195 |
| Possible pathways for future research | p. 199 |
| p. 211 | |
| p. 213 | |
| p. 230 | |
| References | p. 234 |
| Word index | p. 254 |
| Subject index | p. 261 |
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