Guglielmo Inglese
Biographic Data
| ID | 6772657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guglielmo Inglese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guglielmo |
| FAMILY NAME | Inglese |
| SIGNATURE | INGLESE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2577-8348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European
Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent. In Hittite, anticausative lability competes with the active versus middle voice alternation and predominantly affects active verbs. The Hitt…
The diachronic emergence of alignment cross‐linguistically
The possible origins of the various alignment patterns attested in the world's languages have been the object of sustained interest in both language typology and historical linguistics (see Dahl 2021a for a recent overview). What is meant here by alignment, in a maximally general sense, is any pattern pertaining to the distribution of particular coding or behavioral properties (e.g., particular case or indexation forms, particular control pattern…
Nisi paria non pugnant
Lexical reciprocal verbs, defined as those verbs that inherently lexicalize a symmetric situation, e.g., consentio ‘agree’, occur in at least three distinct argument structure constructions, depending on whether their participants are expressed as a single (plural) subject, asymmetrically expressed – one as subject and the other one as oblique – or only one is overtly realized. Drawing from extensive data from a corpus of Latin texts (extracted f…
Introduction
Much of the typological research on the middle voice has so far largely focused on the cross-linguistic definition and status of the middle as a voice category and its relationship to other voice operations such as reflexives and passives. Diachronic research on the middle, especially in a cross-linguistic perspective, remains to these days comparatively marginal. Overall, the existing studies have argued that middle markers generally originate f…
Evidence against unidirectionality in the emergence of middle voice systems
Middle voice systems are characterized by the distribution of a middle marker over two macro-classes of verbs: oppositional and non-oppositional verbs. In diachronic studies, it has been proposed that the historical link between the two groups is unidirectional, with middle marking spreading from oppositional to non-oppositional verbs. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and discuss two case studies, one from Anatolian and one from Paman …
The journey of the middle voice
The notion of middle voice finds its roots in classical antiquity, when it was first proposed by grammarians to describe a particular (set of) forms in the verbal paradigm of Ancient Greek. From medieval to modern times, the middle retained centre stage in linguistic descriptions of Latin and Greek, and in the 19th century, when combined with insights from Indian grammatical thought, it became a popular topic in comparative Indo-European linguist…
Carlota de Benito Moreno
Article Carlota de Benito Moreno: The middle voice and connected constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account was published on November 2, 2023 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 57, issue 3)
The rise and fall of morphological schemas
The paper explores the origin and development of the [ entre- V] construction in the history of French. By means of quantitative corpus data, it is shown that the [ entre -V] construction, particularly in its reciprocal function, is productive in earlier stages of French and progressively disappears over time. We argue that this decrease in productivity is connected to the change in availability of the more abstract [ pref -V] construction. While…
The rise of middle voice systems
Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it obligatorily occurs with no obvious synchronic motivation. Despite the existing cross-linguistic work on middle markers, their history is still largely unknown. In the typological literature, the standard view is that middle markers predominantly have their origin in reflexive mar…
Reconstructing variation in Indo-European word order
Word order is a central issue in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European syntax. Categorical approaches have proved to be inadequate because they postulate for the protolanguage a typological consistency which is absent in any of the attested daughter languages. Following recent research, we adopt a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences as a continuous variable. We analyze four word order patterns based on data ex…
Towards a typology of middle voice systems
The middle voice is a notoriously controversial typological notion. Building on previous work (e.g. Kemmer, Suzanne. 1993. The middle voice . Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins), in this paper I propose a new working definition of middle markers as inherently polyfunctional constructions which are partly associated with valency change in opposition to bivalent (or more) verbs and partly lexically obligatory with monovalent verbs. Based on t…
How do middle voice markers and valency reducing constructions interact? Typological tendencies and diachronic considerations
Middle voice markers are highly polyfunctional items that, among other things, also perform a range of valency-changing operations such as anticausativization and reflexivization. Typological research has shown that individual markers display a great deal of variation with respect to their inventory of functions. Explaining this variation remains a key question that a comprehensive typology of middle markers needs to address. We now know that onl…
The development of locative relative markers
The accessibility hierarchy was first proposed by Keenan & Comrie (1977) to describe the cross-linguistic distribution of relative markers in terms of likelihood of relativization of different syntactic roles. The hierarchy is also commonly believed to reflect constraints on possible changes in the domain of relativization. For example, the hierarchy predicts that locative relatives that develop into general relativizers should expand their funct…
The passive voice in ancient Indo-European languages
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying extents. In addition, dedicated derivational formations arose in a number of languages, such as the Greek - ē-/-thē- aorist and the Indo-Aryan - ya- presents. Periphrastic formations involving a verbal adjective or a participle are also widely attested, and played an impo…
Pluractionality in Hittite
Hittite features three derivational suffixes, i.e., -ške/a- , - šša -, and - anna/i- , that attach to verbs and are commonly described as expressing a number of imperfective-like functions. So far, the distribution and use of these suffixes has defied a satisfactory explanation. Whereas some scholars argue that they operate within the domain of lexical aspect, others view them as associated with the encoding of grammatical imperfective aspect. In…
Reciprocal constructions in Homeric Greek
Ancient Greek features a wide array of means to encode reciprocity. Even though reference grammars do mention most of these strategies, they have not been brought together and compared in a systematic way so far. In this paper, we provide a thorough corpus-based description of the three most widespread reciprocal markers in Homeric Greek: the pronoun allḗlōn , the middle voice, and the use of preverbs. Our analysis is couched within current descr…
Connectives and discourse markers in Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek particle atár has been described as a connective device that encodes either an adversative or a progressive relation between sentences. The purpose of this paper is to revise the description of this particle by framing its analysis within a consistent and theoretically up-to-date model of clause linkage and discourse structure. Starting from previous findings on the function of atár in Homer, I undertake a corpus analysis of atá…
A synchronic and diachronic typology of Hittite reciprocal constructions
This paper discusses reciprocal constructions in Hittite, framed within the typology of reciprocals laid out by Nedjalkov (2007), König & Gast (2008) , and Evans et al. (2011) . Hittite attests to at least three reciprocal markers, that is, the middle voice, the particle = za , and three different polyptotic constructions, based on the iteration of the numeral šia - ‘one’, the demonstrative ka - ‘this’, and the noun ara - ‘fellow, comrade’ respec…
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A synchronic and diachronic typology of Hittite reciprocal constructions
This paper discusses reciprocal constructions in Hittite, framed within the typology of reciprocals laid out by Nedjalkov (2007), König & Gast (2008) , and Evans et al. (2011) . Hittite attests to at least three reciprocal markers, that is, the middle voice, the particle = za , and three different polyptotic constructions, based on the iteration of the numeral šia - ‘one’, the demonstrative ka - ‘this’, and the noun ara - ‘fellow, comrade’ respec…
Connectives and discourse markers in Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek particle atár has been described as a connective device that encodes either an adversative or a progressive relation between sentences. The purpose of this paper is to revise the description of this particle by framing its analysis within a consistent and theoretically up-to-date model of clause linkage and discourse structure. Starting from previous findings on the function of atár in Homer, I undertake a corpus analysis of atá…
Pluractionality in Hittite
Hittite features three derivational suffixes, i.e., -ške/a- , - šša -, and - anna/i- , that attach to verbs and are commonly described as expressing a number of imperfective-like functions. So far, the distribution and use of these suffixes has defied a satisfactory explanation. Whereas some scholars argue that they operate within the domain of lexical aspect, others view them as associated with the encoding of grammatical imperfective aspect. In…
Reciprocal constructions in Homeric Greek
Ancient Greek features a wide array of means to encode reciprocity. Even though reference grammars do mention most of these strategies, they have not been brought together and compared in a systematic way so far. In this paper, we provide a thorough corpus-based description of the three most widespread reciprocal markers in Homeric Greek: the pronoun allḗlōn , the middle voice, and the use of preverbs. Our analysis is couched within current descr…
The passive voice in ancient Indo-European languages
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying extents. In addition, dedicated derivational formations arose in a number of languages, such as the Greek - ē-/-thē- aorist and the Indo-Aryan - ya- presents. Periphrastic formations involving a verbal adjective or a participle are also widely attested, and played an impo…
Towards a typology of middle voice systems
The middle voice is a notoriously controversial typological notion. Building on previous work (e.g. Kemmer, Suzanne. 1993. The middle voice . Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins), in this paper I propose a new working definition of middle markers as inherently polyfunctional constructions which are partly associated with valency change in opposition to bivalent (or more) verbs and partly lexically obligatory with monovalent verbs. Based on t…
How do middle voice markers and valency reducing constructions interact? Typological tendencies and diachronic considerations
Middle voice markers are highly polyfunctional items that, among other things, also perform a range of valency-changing operations such as anticausativization and reflexivization. Typological research has shown that individual markers display a great deal of variation with respect to their inventory of functions. Explaining this variation remains a key question that a comprehensive typology of middle markers needs to address. We now know that onl…
The development of locative relative markers
The accessibility hierarchy was first proposed by Keenan & Comrie (1977) to describe the cross-linguistic distribution of relative markers in terms of likelihood of relativization of different syntactic roles. The hierarchy is also commonly believed to reflect constraints on possible changes in the domain of relativization. For example, the hierarchy predicts that locative relatives that develop into general relativizers should expand their funct…
Introduction
Much of the typological research on the middle voice has so far largely focused on the cross-linguistic definition and status of the middle as a voice category and its relationship to other voice operations such as reflexives and passives. Diachronic research on the middle, especially in a cross-linguistic perspective, remains to these days comparatively marginal. Overall, the existing studies have argued that middle markers generally originate f…
Evidence against unidirectionality in the emergence of middle voice systems
Middle voice systems are characterized by the distribution of a middle marker over two macro-classes of verbs: oppositional and non-oppositional verbs. In diachronic studies, it has been proposed that the historical link between the two groups is unidirectional, with middle marking spreading from oppositional to non-oppositional verbs. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and discuss two case studies, one from Anatolian and one from Paman …
The journey of the middle voice
The notion of middle voice finds its roots in classical antiquity, when it was first proposed by grammarians to describe a particular (set of) forms in the verbal paradigm of Ancient Greek. From medieval to modern times, the middle retained centre stage in linguistic descriptions of Latin and Greek, and in the 19th century, when combined with insights from Indian grammatical thought, it became a popular topic in comparative Indo-European linguist…
Carlota de Benito Moreno
Article Carlota de Benito Moreno: The middle voice and connected constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account was published on November 2, 2023 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 57, issue 3)
The rise and fall of morphological schemas
The paper explores the origin and development of the [ entre- V] construction in the history of French. By means of quantitative corpus data, it is shown that the [ entre -V] construction, particularly in its reciprocal function, is productive in earlier stages of French and progressively disappears over time. We argue that this decrease in productivity is connected to the change in availability of the more abstract [ pref -V] construction. While…
The rise of middle voice systems
Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it obligatorily occurs with no obvious synchronic motivation. Despite the existing cross-linguistic work on middle markers, their history is still largely unknown. In the typological literature, the standard view is that middle markers predominantly have their origin in reflexive mar…
Reconstructing variation in Indo-European word order
Word order is a central issue in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European syntax. Categorical approaches have proved to be inadequate because they postulate for the protolanguage a typological consistency which is absent in any of the attested daughter languages. Following recent research, we adopt a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences as a continuous variable. We analyze four word order patterns based on data ex…
The diachronic emergence of alignment cross‐linguistically
The possible origins of the various alignment patterns attested in the world's languages have been the object of sustained interest in both language typology and historical linguistics (see Dahl 2021a for a recent overview). What is meant here by alignment, in a maximally general sense, is any pattern pertaining to the distribution of particular coding or behavioral properties (e.g., particular case or indexation forms, particular control pattern…
Nisi paria non pugnant
Lexical reciprocal verbs, defined as those verbs that inherently lexicalize a symmetric situation, e.g., consentio ‘agree’, occur in at least three distinct argument structure constructions, depending on whether their participants are expressed as a single (plural) subject, asymmetrically expressed – one as subject and the other one as oblique – or only one is overtly realized. Drawing from extensive data from a corpus of Latin texts (extracted f…
Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European
Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent. In Hittite, anticausative lability competes with the active versus middle voice alternation and predominantly affects active verbs. The Hitt…
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