Laura Grestenberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 792585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Grestenberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Grestenberger |
| SIGNATURE | GRESTENBERGER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6830-9579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sound Change and Analogy, Again
This article revisits the interaction between regular ‘Neogrammarian’ sound change (defined as a purely phonological process) and subsequent morphological change (especially changes subsumed under the term ‘analogy’) in the development of the outcomes of Brugmann's Law (BL) in Indo‐Iranian. The traditional formulation of BL states that Proto‐Indo‐European * o became Indo‐Iranian /ā/ in open syllables and /a/ elsewhere, positing a purely phonologi…
Directionality in cross-categorial derivations
What exactly is the relationship between the verb hammer and the noun hammer? Is one derived from the other, are both derived from a common source, and how can we tell? This article provides an overview of recent generative approaches to derivational directionality and reviews the different kinds of answers given to such questions, considering the diachrony and synchrony of deverbal nouns, deadjectival and denominal verbs, and similar forms. We c…
To v or not to v ? Theme vowels, verbalizers, and the structure of the Ancient Greek verb
This paper offers a Distributed Morphology analysis of verbal theme vowels and primary verbal stem-forming morphology in Ancient Greek (AG). While verbal stem-forming morphemes are standardly analyzed as realizing Aspect in AG, I propose that both the inherited simple thematic and the athematic verbal stem-forming morphology of AG patterns as verbalizing morphology (v) according to a variety of diagnostics proposed in the literature, in particula…
Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek
This paper discusses passivization in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek, two ancient Indo-European languages. These languages have two different types of synthetic passive: the inflectional passive, which expresses passivization by selecting a specific set of nonactive (“middle”) endings, and the derivational passive, which uses a specifically passive suffix, to which inflectional endings expressing Tense, Aspect, and Voice are then added. While t…
Indo-Iranian cákri-type
This paper discusses the Indo-Iranian reduplicated i-adjectives of the type Ved. cákri-, Av. caxri- 'doing'. These adjectives are formally associated with the weak stem of the corresponding perfect, but their lexical semantics are not always those expected of an adjectival derivative of the perfect stem. A subgroup of forms is associated with synchronically resultative perfects (cákri-: cakā́ra, jágmi-: jagā́ma, etc.), but pattern functionally as…
The diachrony of participles in the (pre)history of Greek and Hittite
This article discusses two case studies of diachronic “voice flipping” in which the syntax of a participle appears to change from active or “subject-oriented” to passive (Ancient Greek ‐ menos to Modern Greek ‐ menos ) and from resultative/stative to active (Proto-Indo-European *-nt-; Hittite ‐ ant ‐ vs. Ancient Greek ‐ nt ‐). While the first type of change is the result of a diachronic reanalysis by which a functional projection (VoiceP) is lost…
Deponency in finite and nonfinite contexts
This article investigates the syntactic properties of deponents in finite and nonfinite contexts in several Indo-European languages (Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite, Modern Greek) and proposes a novel definition of deponency: deponents are morphologically nonactive verbs with noncanonical agent arguments that are merged below VoiceP. Since VoiceP is spelled out with nonactive morphology in those languages if it does not introduce an…
Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European Deponents
This paper argues that the Proto-Indo-European voice system, despite undergoing several waves of morphological renewal on the way to the daughter languages (Jasanoff 2003), was typologically that of early IE languages like Vedic and Greek, and contemporary languages such as Modern Greek, and that the syncretic voice systems of these languages share the property of having deponents. While previous discussions of middle-only verbs have focused on a…
Deponency in finite and nonfinite contexts
This article investigates the syntactic properties of deponents in finite and nonfinite contexts in several Indo-European languages (Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite, Modern Greek) and proposes a novel definition of deponency: deponents are morphologically nonactive verbs with noncanonical agent arguments that are merged below VoiceP. Since VoiceP is spelled out with nonactive morphology in those languages if it does not introduce an…
Indo-Iranian cákri-type
This paper discusses the Indo-Iranian reduplicated i-adjectives of the type Ved. cákri-, Av. caxri- 'doing'. These adjectives are formally associated with the weak stem of the corresponding perfect, but their lexical semantics are not always those expected of an adjectival derivative of the perfect stem. A subgroup of forms is associated with synchronically resultative perfects (cákri-: cakā́ra, jágmi-: jagā́ma, etc.), but pattern functionally as…
Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European Deponents
This paper argues that the Proto-Indo-European voice system, despite undergoing several waves of morphological renewal on the way to the daughter languages (Jasanoff 2003), was typologically that of early IE languages like Vedic and Greek, and contemporary languages such as Modern Greek, and that the syncretic voice systems of these languages share the property of having deponents. While previous discussions of middle-only verbs have focused on a…
Deponency in finite and nonfinite contexts
This article investigates the syntactic properties of deponents in finite and nonfinite contexts in several Indo-European languages (Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite, Modern Greek) and proposes a novel definition of deponency: deponents are morphologically nonactive verbs with noncanonical agent arguments that are merged below VoiceP. Since VoiceP is spelled out with nonactive morphology in those languages if it does not introduce an…
The diachrony of participles in the (pre)history of Greek and Hittite
This article discusses two case studies of diachronic “voice flipping” in which the syntax of a participle appears to change from active or “subject-oriented” to passive (Ancient Greek ‐ menos to Modern Greek ‐ menos ) and from resultative/stative to active (Proto-Indo-European *-nt-; Hittite ‐ ant ‐ vs. Ancient Greek ‐ nt ‐). While the first type of change is the result of a diachronic reanalysis by which a functional projection (VoiceP) is lost…
Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek
This paper discusses passivization in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek, two ancient Indo-European languages. These languages have two different types of synthetic passive: the inflectional passive, which expresses passivization by selecting a specific set of nonactive (“middle”) endings, and the derivational passive, which uses a specifically passive suffix, to which inflectional endings expressing Tense, Aspect, and Voice are then added. While t…
Indo-Iranian cákri-type
This paper discusses the Indo-Iranian reduplicated i-adjectives of the type Ved. cákri-, Av. caxri- 'doing'. These adjectives are formally associated with the weak stem of the corresponding perfect, but their lexical semantics are not always those expected of an adjectival derivative of the perfect stem. A subgroup of forms is associated with synchronically resultative perfects (cákri-: cakā́ra, jágmi-: jagā́ma, etc.), but pattern functionally as…
Directionality in cross-categorial derivations
What exactly is the relationship between the verb hammer and the noun hammer? Is one derived from the other, are both derived from a common source, and how can we tell? This article provides an overview of recent generative approaches to derivational directionality and reviews the different kinds of answers given to such questions, considering the diachrony and synchrony of deverbal nouns, deadjectival and denominal verbs, and similar forms. We c…
To v or not to v ? Theme vowels, verbalizers, and the structure of the Ancient Greek verb
This paper offers a Distributed Morphology analysis of verbal theme vowels and primary verbal stem-forming morphology in Ancient Greek (AG). While verbal stem-forming morphemes are standardly analyzed as realizing Aspect in AG, I propose that both the inherited simple thematic and the athematic verbal stem-forming morphology of AG patterns as verbalizing morphology (v) according to a variety of diagnostics proposed in the literature, in particula…
Sound Change and Analogy, Again
This article revisits the interaction between regular ‘Neogrammarian’ sound change (defined as a purely phonological process) and subsequent morphological change (especially changes subsumed under the term ‘analogy’) in the development of the outcomes of Brugmann's Law (BL) in Indo‐Iranian. The traditional formulation of BL states that Proto‐Indo‐European * o became Indo‐Iranian /ā/ in open syllables and /a/ elsewhere, positing a purely phonologi…
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