Winfred P. Lehmann, Director :: PCL 5.112, 1 University Station S5490 :: Austin, TX 78712 :: 512-471-4566
Language Systems Indices
Indo-European Typology Project
Citation Record
Bauer, Brigitte L.M. 1999. Impersonal Habet Constructions in Latin: At the Crossroads of Indo-European Innovation. Language Change and Typological Variation: In Honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the Occasion of his 83rd Birthday. Vol II. Grammatical Universals and Typology. Journal of Indo-European Studies. Monograph 31. 590-612.
CASE
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE RECONSTRUCTION
LANGUAGE TYPE
LANGUAGES
- Albanian
- Bulgarian
- Germanic
- Greek
- Greek [influence on Latin syntax]
- Italian
- Italic
- Latin
- Middle English
- Old English
- Old Norse
- Portuguese
- Slavic
- Spanish
LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
- accusativus cum infinitivus
- impersonal construction
- mihi est construction [denoting possession] [Latin]
LINGUISTIC ITEMS
- avoir [verb denoting possession] [French]
- ci [Italian]
- es gibt [German]
- esse [Latin]
- est [locative] [Latin]
- facit [Latin]
- habere [verb denoting possession] [Latin]
- habet [impersonal] [Latin]
- have [verb denoting possession] [English]
METHODS, APPROACHES, AND HYPOTHESES
MORPHOLOGY
PARTS OF SPEECH
- noun [abstract]
- noun [active vs. stative]
- participle [perfect]
- pronoun
- pronoun [subject]
- verb [active vs. stative]
- verb [denoting possession]
- verb [impersonal]
- verb [impersonal] [denoting emotions]
- verb [impersonal] [denoting weather conditions]
- verb [impersonal] [modality]
- verb [transitive]
SYNTAX
- argument structure
- particle [locative]
- right-branching structures
- subject [apparent]
- subject [pronominal] [impersonal verbs]
- syntax [transitive]
- transitivity
- transitivity [absence of]
- word order
- word order [mihi est constructions]