Bauer Brigitte. Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French

De Gruyter Mouton, 2000. — 412 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 125).Table of contents:
Preface
Abbreviations referring to grammatical terms:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Language typology: Arbitrariness and system
Indo-European linguistics and content-related typology
Language types
Proto-Indo-European and active typology
The aim of this study
Chapter 2 The ergative and active hypotheses for Proto-Indo-European
Preliminary discussion: Uhlenbeck and Sapir
General characteristics of ergativity
Proto-Indo-European and the ergative hypothesis
Non-Transitive languages
Conclusion: The non-nominative stage of Proto-Indo-European
Chapter 3 Impersonal verbs
The impersonal verb in Indo-European: General considerations
Impersonal verbs referring to weather conditions
Impersonal verbs in Latin not referring to weather conditions
The development of impersonal verbs in the shift from Latin to Romance
Impersonal verbs in non-Indo-European languages
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Possessive mihi est constructions
Types of possession
Possession in Indo-European languages
The mihi est construction in Latin
Dative vs. genitive in possessive constructions
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Nominal structures: Verbal mihi est constructions
Verbal mihi est constructions in the early daughter languages
Verbal mihi est constructions in Latin
Verbal mihi est constructions: conclusion
Chapter 6 Nominal structures: Absolute constructions
Absolute constructions in the early daughter languages
Absolute constructions: An inherited characteristic?
Absolute constructions in Latin
The development of absolute constructions in Latin
Absolutes in Old and Middle French
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Conclusion
Proto-Indo-European grammar
Syntactic residues in Proto-Indo-European
Grammatical characteristics and the development of syntactic residues
Parallels with other structures
References
Index