Hierarchy and Interaction of Verbal Categories across Languages

The volume presents a typology of interaction of verbal categories, including the question of (in)compatibility of individual categories or their values (‘grammemes’), as well as the question of meaning shifts of individual verbal grammemes occurring in particular combinations. The volume also raises, more tentatively, the question of the Universal Hierarchy of verbal categories and its role in constraining combinations of individual grammemes. Apart from a typological overview and a questionnaire designed by the editors, the volume includes 18 contributions dealing with interaction of verbal categories in individual languages (Ancient Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Chinese, Chukchi, French, Gban, Even, Khmer, Lithuanian, Nanai, Old Javanese, Ossetic, Paraguayan Guarani, Russian, Tagalog, Tundra and Forest Enets), written by leading experts, which serve as a pilot database for the proposed typological generalizations.
Contents: A. L. Malchukov, V. S. Xrakovskij: Preview of results - V. S. Xrakovskij, A. L. Malchukov: Interaction and hierarchy of grammatical categories of verbs: A position paper and a typological questionnaire - A. L. Malchukov: Interaction of verbal categories in Even - N. M. Zaika: Verbal category interaction in Basque - D. V. Gerasimov: Interaction of verbal categories in Paraguayan Guarani - A. K. Ogloblin: Interaction of grammatical verbal categories in Old Javanese - S. B. Klimenko: Verbal grammeme interaction in Tagalog - M. L. Fedotov: Interaction of verbal categories in Gban and a method for describing language‑specific hierarchies of interacting categories - A. P. Vydrin: Interactions of verbal categories in Ossetic - I. Ibragimov: Verbal category interaction in Ancient Greek (V—IV centuries B. C.) - R. G. Mamedshakhov: Interaction and hierarchy of verbal categories in Modern Standard Arabic - E. N. Kolpachkova: Grammatical categories in Modern Chinese: Interaction - A. Yu. Urmanchieva: Interaction of verbal categories in Tundra Enets and Forest Enets in synchrony and diachrony (evidentiality, mood, tense) - V. A. Kagirova: Interaction of tense and mood in modern literary East Armenian - M. Yu. Pupynina: Interaction of verbal categories in Chukchi (mood, tense, negation) - E. E. Kordi: Verbal categories of mood, tense, aspect, and temporal distance in French (problems of interaction) - E. Š. Geniušienė: Aspect and tense in Lithuanian - S. A. Oskolskaya: Interaction of actionality and verbal categories in Nanai - S. Yu. Dmitrenko, N. M. Spatarj: Interaction between tense and aspect markers in Modern Khmer: Grammatical category interaction revisited - S. S. Say: Tense and representation in Russian: Category interaction.