Archaic Syntax in Indo-European —— The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French

----- 印欧语中的古句法：及物性在拉丁文和法文中的传播

ISBN: 9783110167238 出版年：2011 页码：412 Bauer, Brigitte De Gruyter Mouton

This book analyzes structures in (early) Indo-European languages that traditionally have been difficult to account for: impersonal verbs, "mihi est" constructions to express possession, "mihi est" constructions in combination with a nominal form of the verb, and absolute constructions. It is argued that they are inherited from Proto-Indo- European and that they are residues of a stage at which the proto-language was non-nominative. Their gradual replacement with modern transitive structures, as demonstrated in detail in the development of Latin and French, shows the increasing importance of transitivity in the development of Indo-European.