Hackstein Olav. Apposition and Nominal Classification in Indo-European and Beyond

Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010. — 78 S. — (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 798. Band – Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik, Nr. 56). — ISBN 978-3-7001-6803-4.Contents: The hypothesis: Close apposition as the source of nominal classifiers. Head-final postposing and head-initial preposing of close appositions in Indo-European and beyond: Head-final word order and postposing of the generic noun. Head-initial word order and preposing of the generic noun: Indo-European. Non-Indo-European. [bMore evidence for SOV and proper noun – common noun order from ancient Indo-European languages: the case of Hittite, Tocharian, and Celtiberian[/b]: Hittite: Postposed apposition. Tocharian: Postposed apposition. Celtiberian: Postposed apposition. The syntax of simple apposition and word-order type: Greenberg’s Universal 23. Evidence against N-AP & SOV, subrules and diachronic change: Highlighting. Word-order change. Adjectival conversion of AP and syntactic analogy. The internal dependency structure of NPs involving close apposition: head-final, head-initial or double-headed?: Semantic subordination and hyponymity/hyperonymity. Semantic chaining: Leftward relocation of hyponyms in OV languages. Close apposition and nominal classifiers outside Indo-European: Nominal classifiers and word order. Adjacency of relative hyponym and relative hyperonym. Close apposition as a source of classifiers: A pragmatic account of appositional generics. Function: Homeric Greek. Biblical Hebrew. Nominal apposition in ancient Indo-European: from casual to habitual collocation, from habitual collocation to grammatical construction: Apposition in counting: numeral-apposition NPs: YOKE ›› PAIR: Cooccurrence of noun phrase and dvigu compound. Apposition as sex-marking strategy, and numeral classifiers. MAN ›› sex-marking morpheme: Cooccurrence of noun phrase and dvigu compound. WOMAN ›› sex-marking morpheme: PIE *(h₁)esōr ‘woman’ and the feminine of the cardinals ‘three’ and ‘four’ in PIE: Reduction in univerbation. The placement of the generic term MAN/WOMAN and adjectival conversion of apposed generic nouns. Conclusion. Abbreviations. References. Index of Subjects. Index of non-Indo-European Languages. Index of Words.