The Germanic Strong Verbs

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ISBN: 9783110199574 | 3110199572
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Copyright: 7/1/2007

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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.

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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