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Text und Zeittiefe
(1994)
This volume, translated into French from the Russian [Jazyk drevnejsej irlandskoj poezii] by Yves Le Berre and edited by Hildegard L. C. Tristram is the only analysis and discussion to date of the language, style and metrics of the earliest Old Irish poetry. This poetry is oral-derived and reflects the poetic practices of the pre-christian and therefore preliterate period of Irish culture. Much of it is related by Kalyguine to the magical understanding of shaman- like poetic practices.
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of the grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.