内容紹介
Preterite-present verbs show morphological peculiarities: their present singular typically exhibits the o-grade radical vocalism, to conform with the preterite singular of a strong verb, whilst their preterite is formed with a dental suffix, which accords with the preterite of a weak verb. English and Germanic philologists have construed these characteristics as the result of an original o-grade perfect having been reinterpreted as the new present, along with the suppression of the original e-grade present, and of the PGmc. dental or weak preterite having been newly adopted for the preterite formation; this standpoint may be labelled the ‘strong verb origin’ theory. The present work calls this view into question by focusing on its inherent difficulties. Authentic Indo-European studies have taken the present tense formations of the OE or PGmc. preterite-presents to be reflexes of the PIE stative perfects. Whilst this understanding, dubbed the ‘stative perfect origin’ theory, provides a far better explanation than the ‘strong verb origin’ theory, several significant issues remain to be resolved. First, how did the PGmc. preterite-present verbs lose their original reduplication? Second, the IE comparative evidence does not guarantee that all the preterite-presents unequivocally ref
著者について
Toshiya Tanaka is a professor at the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University Academic Background Bachelor of Arts in English Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Nagoya University, March 1984 Master of Arts in English Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts, Nagoya University, March 1986 Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University, April 1988 - September 1990 Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University, October 1990 March 1991 Associate Professor, Institute of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, April 1991 March 2000 Associate Professor, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, April 2001 December 2010 Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics and the English Language, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Manchester, April 2005 Professor, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, January 2011 present Recent Publications “Old English :t ‘ate’ and the Preterite Plural Formation of the Strong Class V Verbs.” Eigo-Eibungaku-Ronso (Studies in English Language and Literature, Kyushu University) No. 56 (February 2006), pp.13-22. “The Proto-Germanic Third Person Plural Strong Preterite and the Proto-Indo-European ‘Type I’ Thematic Present Formations: With Special Reference to the Strong IV and V Clas