The 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.

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Notations

Part 1 Preliminaries



1 Introduction

 1.1 Objective and Scope

 1.2 Overview of the Gothic Corpus

 1.3 The Gothic Translation Process

 1.4 Translation and the Gothic Vorlage



2 Grammatical Theories and Constructs

 2.1 Voice

 2.2 Unaccusativity

 2.3 Tense, Mood and Aspect

 2.4 Telicity

 2.5 Event-Boundedness

 2.6 The Vendler Taxonomy of Verbal Types

 2.7 The Copula and the Auxiliary

 2.8 Resultativity and Its Types

 2.9 Resultativity in Distributed Morphology



3 The Perfect

 3.1 Characteristics of the Perfect

 3.2 Construction and Readings of the Perfect

 3.3 The Indefinite Past Theory of the Perfect

 3.4 Semantics of the Perfect via the Indefinite Past Theory



4 Language-Specific Verbal Systems

 4.1 The TMA System of Koine Greek

 4.2 The TMA System of Gothic



Part 2 The -nan Verb in Gothic



5 Historical Development of Nasal Verb Classes



6 Descriptive Approaches to the -nan Verb

 6.1 The Passive Approach

 6.2 The Intransitive-Inchoative Approach

 6.3 Non-inchoative Approaches



7 Positioning -nan Verbs in Developmental Systems

 7.1 System of Valence: -nan as Detransitivized Predicates

 7.2 System of Diathesis: -nan as Middle Voice

 7.3 System of Causation: -nan as Anticausative

 7.4 System of Argument Structure: -nan as Resultative



8 Toward a Semantic Description of -nan Verbs

 8.1 -nan Verbs and Adjectives

 8.2 -nan verbs and Passive Participles

 8.3 Section Summary: Destatal and Deadjectival

 8.4 Statal Semantics: The aukan System

 8.5 End-Point Semantics

 8.6 Examples of Seemingly Non-fientive Semantics in -nan Verbs

 8.7 Summary



9 Toward a Syntactic Description of -nan Verbs

 9.1 Structural Model of Resultative Constructions

 9.2 A Semantic Characterization of Deadjectival Fientives and -nan Verbs

 9.3 Implications

 9.4 Summary: Perfectivization as a Constraint on Aspect



Part 3 The Periphrastic Passive in Gothic



10 Views of the Periphrastic Passive

 10.1 Periphrasis as “False” Passive

 10.2 Periphrasis as Passive and Resultative

 10.3 Lexical Aspect as an Interpretive Means of Choosing a Periphrasis

 10.4 Lexical Aspect as a Systematic Means of Choosing a Periphrastic

 10.5 Consensus Concerning Lexical Aspect in Gothic



11 Periphrasis as a Method for Translation

 11.1 Proposal

 11.2 Previous Analyses

 11.3 Methodology

 11.4 The wisan Periphrasis: Overview

 11.5 The wairþan Periphrasis: Overview



12 Past-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates

 12.1 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist

 12.2 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect

 12.3 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle

 12.4 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Imperfect

 12.5 Comparison of the Gothic Periphrases in the Past Tense



13 Present-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates

 13.1 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect

 13.2 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle

 13.3 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Present

 13.4 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist



14 Statistical Analysis of Periphrastic Passives

 14.1 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic Past and Non-past

 14.2 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic was + PP vs. warþ + PP



15 Comparison of Periphrastic Passives



16 Resultativity as a Means to a Full Passive Paradigm



17 Proposing a Perfect Passive Semantics



18 Toward a Syntactic Description of Gothic Periphrases



19 Diachronic Implications

 19.1 The State of the ‘Be’ Passive in Gothic

 19.2 The State of the ‘Become’ Passive in Gothic



Appendix 1: Gothic Periphrases

Appendix 2: Clausal Features of Gothic Periphrases

References

Index