Götz Keydana

Wolfgang Hock

Paul Widmer

The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition. Expressing various types of comparison is thus essential to any language. The present volume presents detailed grammatical descriptions of how comparison and gradation are expressed in ancient Indo-European languages. The detailed chapters devoted to the individual languages go far beyond standard handbook knowledge. Each chapter is structured the same way to facilitate cross-reference and (typological) comparison. The data are presented in a top-down fashion and in a format easily accessible to the linguistic community. The topics covered are similatives, equatives, comparatives, superlatives, elatives, and excessives. Each type of comparison is illustrated with glossed examples of all its attested grammatical realizations. The book is an indispensable tool for typologists, historical linguists, and students of the syntax and morphosyntax of comparison.

Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European

Being an in-depth study of the syntax and semantics of infinitives in Early Vedic, this book gives a comprehensive account of the various types of infinitive use attested. Furthermore, heuristics are given for identifying infinitives in ancient languages. - Durch eine sorgfältige Untersuchung ihrer syntaktischen und semantischen Eigenschaften eröffnet dieses Buch einen neuen Blick auf die Kategorie Infinitiv im frühen Vedisch. Darüber hinaus zeigt sie neue Wege zur Identifizierung und Analyse syntaktischer Kategorien in Altsprachen auf.

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