Proto-Indo-European
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of possible pseudocoordination in Proto-Indo-European; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.1 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: minimal documentation; reconstructed language
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 5
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.1
Summary
Pseudocoordination cannot be reconstructed directly from modern languages especially given the variety of lexical coordinators used in this function implying recurring grammaticalization rather than inheritance across the family, although based on the earliest attested Indo-European languages it seems that there may not have been a sharp distinction between the functions of coordinator *kwe 'and' and subordination (cf. Ross 2021 and other references below).
References
Delbrück, Berthold. 1888. Altindische Syntax. Halle: Verlag der Waisen Hauses.
Eichner, Heiner. 1971. Urindogermanisch *kwe “wenn” im Hethitischen. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 29. 27–46.
Kiparsky, Paul. 1968. Tense and Mood in Indo-European Syntax. Foundations of Language 4(1). 30–57.
Klein, Jared S. 1982. Sanskrit ca, Indo-European *kwe, and the semantics of coordinate conjoined structures in the Rigveda. South Asian Review 6(3). 65–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.1982.11933092
Ross, Daniel. 2021. Pseudocoordination, Serial Verb Constructions and Multi-Verb Predicates: The relationship between form and structure. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. dissertation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5546425 [Section 2.2.3.1]