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On syntactic diagnostics as tests for telicity in ancient Indo-European languages. Evidence from Vedic and Greek
Anna Maria Bartolottasubject
completive adverbialdurative adverbialSyntactic diagnosticVedic SanskritHomeric Greek.Settore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguisticadescription
The aim of this paper is to assay the reliability of completive and durative adverbials as linguistic tests for telicity in a historical perspective. Until now such tests have been applied only to contemporary languages, which provide both written and spoken corpora. However, if the compatibility with for/in-adverbials is a reliable test, it should function not only crosslinguistically, but also with ancient and reconstructed languages. I will use digital corpora of Vedic Sanskrit and Homeric Greek texts to explore the compatibility of temporal expressions with a selected sample of verbs that derive from a previous Indo-European common stage.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 |