Berthold Delbruck, Historical and Comparative Indo-european Syntax 1922-2022: Proceedings of the International Conference Delbruck Colloquium on ... Held in Verona on November 9-12, 2022 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3752007737 ISBN 13: 9783752007732

Publisher: Reichert Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

English summary: Berthold Delbruck is considered the founding father of comparative and Indo-European syntax. His works provided the first detailed studies into several syntactic topics, such as tense, aspect and mood, word order, agreement and case functions to name only a few, in the ancient Indo-European languages known at that time, with a particular emphasis on Greek and Sanskrit. On the occasion of the centenary of his death in 2022, an honorary conference on comparative Indo-European syntax was organised in Verona within the framework of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Project Particles in Greek and Hittite as Expression of Mood and Modality (PaGHEMMo), which was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Grant Agreement Number 101018097. This conference not only addressed the already known languages but also studied the languages discovered after his death (the Anatolian languages, Tocharian) and the texts in already known languages discovered after his death (Mycenaean Greek) but also used new scientific methods and incorporated results from other (branches of linguistic) sciences. This book provides the proceedings of that conference. As was the case with Delbruck himself, several contributions, provided for by specialists in the individual languages, deal with Proto-Indo-European, Greek and Indo-Iranian but also Latin, Celtic, Tocharian, Albanian, Old-Prussian and the Anatolian languages are studied. The topics treated in this volume rank from tense, aspect and mood, case usage, agreement, word order, formulaic and poetic language, negation, language contact, and syntactic change. The volume starts with a historiographic essay on his method and its heritage in the history of syntactic theories and reconstruction and concludes with a syntactic description of Proto-Indo-European. This work is one of the first volumes that gathers synchronic syntactic studies into many different, also non-classical, Indo-European languages (such as Albanian, Old-Prussian and Tocharian) and topics, that provides diachronic syntactical analyses and that ventures reconstructing (part of) the syntax of Proto-Indo-European. The volume will be beneficial for historical linguistics, classicists, scholars of lesser studied languages and languages of the Near-East, and linguistics in general. German description: Berthold Delbruck gilt als der Grunder der vergleichenden indogermanischen Syntax. Als erster hatte er damals in seinen Arbeiten detaillierte Untersuchungen zu Tempus, Aspekt und Modus, Wortfolge, Konkordanz und Kasusgebrauch, um nur einige zu nennen, in den altesten indogermanischen Sprachen, vorzuglich im Griechischen und Sanskrit, geleistet. Beim hundertjahrigen Todestag in 2022 wurde in Verona, im Zuge des Marie Sklodowska-Curie Projectes Particles in Greek and Hittite as Expression of Mood and Modality (PaGHEMMo), finanziert vom European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Grant Agreement Number 101018097, eine Tagung uber vergleichende und indogermanische Syntax zu seiner Ehre organisiert. Diese Tagung behandelte nicht nur die damals schon gekannten Sprachen aber beschaffte sich auch mit den erst spater entdeckten Sprachen (wie z.B. Tocharisch und die anatolischen Sprachen) bzw. spater gefunden Texten aus schon bekannten Sprachen (z.B. Mykenisch Griechisch). Dazu wurden neue wissenschaftliche Methoden benutzt sowie Ergebnisse aus anderen (Branchen der Sprach-)Wissenschaften. Dieses Buch enthalt die Beitrage dieser Konferenz. Wie damals schon Delbruck selbst getan hat, beschaftigt eine grosse Anzahl der Aufsatze, erstellt von Spezialisten der verschiedenen Einzelsprachen, sich mit dem Griechischen und dem Sanskrit, aber auch Latein, Keltisch, Tocharisch, Albanisch, Alt-Preussisch und die anatolischen Sprachen werden ausfuhrlich behandelt. Die in diesem Buche besprochenen Themen umfassen u.a. Tempus, Aspekt, Modus, Kasusgebrauch, Konkordanz, Wortfolge, Formular- und Dichtersprache, Negation, Sprachkontakt und syntaktische (Sprach)wandel. Der Band fangt mit einem historiographischen Essay uber Delbruck's Rolle und Methode in der Komparation und Rekonstruktion und sein Erbe in der Geschichte der syntaktischen Theorien und schliesst mit einer syntaktischen Beschreibung der indogerma-nischen Grundsprache ab. Die Arbeit ist eines der ersten Bucher, das synchrone syntaktische Studien zu unterschiedlichen, auch nicht-klassischen, indogermanischen Sprachen (wie Albanisch, Alt-Preussisch und Tocharisch) und Forschungsfragen verschafft, das diachrone syntaktische Analysen enthalt und das eine Rekonstruktion (eines Teiles) der Syntax des Indogermanischen darstellen versucht. Dieser Tagungsband wird historischen Sprachwissenschaftlern, klassischen Philologen, Sprachforschern der weniger erforschten Sprachen und der Nahostlichen Sprachen, und allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaftlern von Nutzen sein.

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Paola Cotticelli-Kurras
Paola Cotticelli is full Professor for Historical and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Verona. Since 2007, she is Director of the Department Research Centre for Studies in metalanguage and History of Ideas. She participated and directed many research programs in the field of the History of Ideas, Linguistic Concepts, and Grammarians and linguistic Historiography (PRIN 2002-2004; 2011-2013; [2017-]2020-2024; PRIN 2022[2023-2025] as PI of projects of national relevance on the history of some syntactic categories in the Middle Ages, and in Modern ages). In 2007, she published Lessico di Linguistica (Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria). Other research fields: Hittitology, Historical Linguistics and Ancient languages, Graphematics. In 2014-2016, she was PI of a Grant by the Foundation von Thyssen (2014-2016) for a joint project on Indo-European Syntax (Winter Verlag, Heidelberg). In 2015-2017, she was Supervisor of a Marie Curie Grant (Horizon 2020; project SLUW, Fellow: Dr. Federico Giusfredi) on Luwian syntax, since 2021 she is supervisor of a Marie Curie Grant (Horizon 2020; project PaGHEMMo, fellow Dr. Filip De Decker). In 2002-2017, she was co-director of Hethitisches Wörterbuch (Winter Verlag, Heidelberg) as DFG-Project; since 2015, she is scientific director of the series: 'Laut-Schrift-Sprache / Script and Sound' (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden), and 'Texte der Hethiter' (Winter Verlag, Heidelberg). Since 2017- Coordination of a Master in 'Teaching Italian as foreign/second language'. Since 2021 she is President of Cispels.

Filip De Decker
Dr. Habil. Filip De Decker (1977) studied Classics at the Universiteit Gent (Belgium) and the University of Calgary (Canada) and obtained his PhD in Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2015 with a thesis entitled A morpho-syntactic analysis of speech introductions and conclusions in Homer. After that, he was postdoctoral researcher at the Universiteit Gent and the FWO Vlaanderen (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen - Flemish Science Foundation) from 2016 to 2020 and from 2021 until 2023 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Università degli Studi di Verona in Verona (Italy), as Marie Sklodowska Curie Action - European Fellowship - Individual Fellow. He has also been a visting scholar at the universities of Cologne and Oxford. In 2023 he obtained the Italian Habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, ASN) in the field of Linguistics. His specialisations are Greek, Latin and Indo-European phonology, etymology and morphology, and the historical morpho-syntax of the Greek verb. He is author of more than 60 articles, book chapters and reviews and the monograph Studies in Homeric Speech Introductions and Conclusions: Tense, Aspect, Augment, Mood, Modality, and Modal Particle published in 2022 at the Edizioni dell'Orso.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reichert Verlag
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3752007737
• ISBN 13: 9783752007732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Cotticelli-Kurras Paola, De Decker Filip Johannes