Gothic Resultative

R. Moses Katz, Ph.D. (2016), University of Georgia, is Instructor of English at Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael, Atlanta. He has presented at the Universities of Georgia and North Carolina and was invited to speak on the Germanic perfect at Kentucky University.

• List of TablesNotationsPart 1 Preliminaries1 Introduction1.1 Objective and Scope1.2 Overview of the Gothic Corpus1.3 The Gothic Translation Process1.4 Translation and the Gothic Vorlage2 Grammatical Theories and Constructs2.1 Voice2.2 Unaccusativity2.3 Tense, Mood and Aspect2.4 Telicity2.5 Event-Boundedness2.6 The Vendler Taxonomy of Verbal Types2.7 The Copula and the Auxiliary2.8 Resultativity and Its Types2.9 Resultativity in Distributed Morphology3 The Perfect3.1 Characteristics of the Perfect3.2 Construction and Readings of the Perfect3.3 The Indefinite Past Theory of the Perfect3.4 Semantics of the Perfect via the Indefinite Past Theory4 Language-Specific Verbal Systems4.1 The TMA System of Koine Greek4.2 The TMA System of GothicPart 2 The -nan Verb in Gothic5 Historical Development of Nasal Verb Classes6 Descriptive Approaches to the -nan Verb6.1 The Passive Approach6.2 The Intransitive-Inchoative Approach6.3 Non-inchoative Approaches7 Positioning -nan Verbs in Developmental Systems7.1 System of Valence: -nan as Detransitivized Predicates7.2 System of Diathesis: -nan as Middle Voice7.3 System of Causation: -nan as Anticausative7.4 System of Argument Structure: -nan as Resultative8 Toward a Semantic Description of -nan Verbs8.1 -nan Verbs and Adjectives8.2 -nan verbs and Passive Participles8.3 Section Summary: Destatal and Deadjectival8.4 Statal Semantics: The aukan System8.5 End-Point Semantics8.6 Examples of Seemingly Non-fientive Semantics in -nan Verbs8.7 Summary9 Toward a Syntactic Description of -nan Verbs9.1 Structural Model of Resultative Constructions9.2 A Semantic Characterization of Deadjectival Fientives and -nan Verbs9.3 Implications9.4 Summary: Perfectivization as a Constraint on AspectPart 3 The Periphrastic Passive in Gothic10 Views of the Periphrastic Passive10.1 Periphrasis as “False” Passive10.2 Periphrasis as Passive and Resultative10.3 Lexical Aspect as an Interpretive Means of Choosing a Periphrasis10.4 Lexical Aspect as a Systematic Means of Choosing a Periphrastic10.5 Consensus Concerning Lexical Aspect in Gothic11 Periphrasis as a Method for Translation11.1 Proposal11.2 Previous Analyses11.3 Methodology11.4 The wisan Periphrasis: Overview11.5 The wairþan Periphrasis: Overview12 Past-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates12.1 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist12.2 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect12.3 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle12.4 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Imperfect12.5 Comparison of the Gothic Periphrases in the Past Tense13 Present-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates13.1 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect13.2 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle13.3 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Present13.4 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist14 Statistical Analysis of Periphrastic Passives14.1 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic Past and Non-past14.2 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic was + PP vs. warþ + PP15 Comparison of Periphrastic Passives16 Resultativity as a Means to a Full Passive Paradigm17 Proposing a Perfect Passive Semantics18 Toward a Syntactic Description of Gothic Periphrases19 Diachronic Implications19.1 The State of the ‘Be’ Passive in Gothic19.2 The State of the ‘Become’ Passive in GothicAppendix 1: Gothic PeriphrasesAppendix 2: Clausal Features of Gothic PeriphrasesReferencesIndex