EVOCAT - The Evolution of Morphosyntactic Categorization

Output

Publications, data sets, and other output by team members will be gradually added to this site.

Publications

Forthcoming

  • Marescotti, C. Under revision. From nouns and adjectives to verbs: Base effects on the grammatical behaviour of denominal verbs in Ancient Greek. Ms., University of Vienna.
  • Marescotti, C. & L. Grestenberger. Between states and events: The diachrony of Ancient Greek denominal verbs in –eúō. Under revision.

  • Grestenberger, L., V. Reiter & M. Malzahn (eds.). 2026. Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond. Berlin: Language Science Press. Forthcoming.

     

Previous work

Some previous work by team members that bears relevance to the EVOCAT project - see also the “Verbal categories and categorizers in diachrony” project.

  • Grestenberger, L. & H. Fellner. In press. Relative chronology and morphosyntactic change. In: Relative chronology and historical linguistics, ed. by Florian Wandl, Thomas Olander, and Johan-Mattis List. Berlin: Language Science Press.
  • Cennamo, M. & C. Marescotti. Forthcoming. Root, templatic and thematic constraints on anticausativization in Latin: variation and change, to appear in Journal of Latin Linguistics.
  • Cennamo, M., M. Giuliani, & C. Marescotti. Forthcoming. Valency patterns in Classical Latin, to appear in: Luraghi, S., Inglese, G., Roma, E., Giuliani, M. (eds.), Cross-linguistic and diachronic perspectives on valency patterns and alternations, De Gruyter.
  • Marescotti, C., M. Cennamo, M. & C. Fabrizio. Forthcoming. Late Latin Database, to appear in PaVeDa: https://paveda.unipv.it/.
  • Marescotti, C. & M. Giuliani. Forthcoming. Classical Latin Database, to appear in PaVeDa: https://paveda.unipv.it/.
  • Marescotti, C. & D. Romagno. Forthcoming. Origin, functions and distribution of the suffix -eus in Ancient Greek: between toponyms and agent nouns, to appear in: A. D’Agostino, D. Romagno (eds.), Lost cities: form, meaning and perception of urban settlements in the Ancient Near and Middle East, Pisa, Pisa University Press.
  • Grestenberger, L., M. Werner, P. Anderson & D. Sichrovsky. Forthcoming. The diachrony of iterativity: Evidence from Germanic r-verbs. Word Structure, SI “Historical Morphology and Morphological Theory”. Preprint.
  • Grestenberger, L. & I. Tanza-Kamil. 2026. Voice alternations in diachrony. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics, eds. Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É Kiss, Joseph Salmons & Alexandra Simonenko. Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl106
  • Grestenberger, L. 2023. The diachrony of verbalizers in Indo-European: Where does v come from? Journal of Historical Syntax 7(6-19), 1-40. https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2023.v7i6-19.156
  • Grestenberger, L. 2023. Deponency. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, eds. Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulalia Bonet & Antonio Fábregas. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom025
  • Grestenberger, L. 2022. To v or not to v? Theme vowels, verbalizers, and the structure of the Ancient Greek verb. Glossa 47(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8597
  • Grestenberger, L. & I. Kastner. 2022. Directionality in cross-categorial derivations. Glossa 2022(7). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8710