The subject of the dissertation is the origin of the Old Norse periphrastic future. First, it is shown that the main exponent of future in Old Norse, as opposed to other old Germanic languages, is the auxiliary verb munu, both in terms of its frequency and its remarkably neutral meaning. It is attested as such even in the oldest 9th century sources, the Skaldic poems. These characteristics of munu are in contrast with the other exponent of the periphrastic future, the verb skulu, which was less frequent and more modal. The futural character of munu and the modal character of skulu are further demonstrated by an analysis of the means of future expression used in prophecies and curses. Discussion of the grammaticalization of munu has shown that as early as the 9th century the verb had developed meanings that are derived from future (particularly the probability meaning). Hence, the futural use must have been fairly common for a considerably long period before the first attestations. Further evidence for the early use of munu-future in North Germanic comes from the reconstruction of the morphological development of the verb. It shows a transition from the class of regular weak verbs to the preterite-present class which was associated with modal/function verbs in Germanic. These findings show that the...

TORRES, Fábio Fernandes. O gerúndio na expressão de tempo futuro: um estudo sociofuncionalista. 2009. 182f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2009. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-07-09T14:50:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_diss__FFTorres.pdf: 936413 bytes, checksum: af8572e4e47a77d1dfe23b3cfa452ead (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-08-02T14:46:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_diss__FFTorres.pdf: 936413 bytes, checksum: af8572e4e47a77d1dfe23b3cfa452ead (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-02T14:46:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_diss__FFTorres.pdf: 936413 bytes, checksum: af8572e4e47a77d1dfe23b3cfa452ead (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / This research deals with the variation of future tense with gerund forms in the Portuguese spoken in Fortaleza, from data of speakers of three different professions, collected by means of sociolinguistic interviews: salesmen, teachers and telemarketing workers. This phenomenon presents six variants: a) the imminent periphrastic simple future, b) the imminent periphrastic extended future - that compose the imminent future variable; c) the medium periphrastic simple future, d) the medium periphrastic extended future - that compose the medium future variable; e) the resultative periphrastic simple future, and f) the resultative periphrastic extended future - that compose the resultative future variable. We also consider a definition of gerundismo based on form, aspect, modality and temporal criteria. The theoretical referential is composed by the association of postulates of the Sociolinguistics Analysis and the Linguistic Functionalism, resulting in the theoretical configuration of the Sociofuncionalismo, considered by Tavares (2003). The analysis is performed in four stages: in the first one, we analyze the variants of imminent future; after that, the variants of medium future; later, the variants of resultative future and, finally, a section is dedicated for analysis of the variant called gerundismo. Results confirm that the phenomenon under study is influenced by factors of distinct nature: social factors, such as sex and profession of speakers and linguistic factors as type of the verb (auxiliary or modal verbs) and presence of one mark of future tense. / Esta dissertação trata da variação de tempo futuro no português falado em Fortaleza codificado por perífrases gerundivas, a partir de dados de fala de informantes de três diferentes áreas de atuação, coletados por meio de entrevistas sociolinguísticas: vendedores, professores e operadores de telemarketing. Esse fenômeno apresenta seis variantes: a) futuro iminente perifrástico simples, b) futuro iminente perifrástico estendido – que compõem a subvariável futuro iminente; c) futuro médio perifrástico simples, d) futuro médio perifrástico estendido – que compõem a subvariável futuro médio; e) futuro resultativo perifrástico simples e f) futuro resultativo perifrástico estendido – que compõem a subvariável futuro resultativo. Trata-se também da variante denominada gerundismo para a qual propomos uma definição baseada em critérios tais como forma, aspecto, modalidade e natureza temporal. O referencial teórico é composto pela associação de postulados da Sociolinguística Variacionista e do Funcionalismo Linguístico, resultando na configuração teórica do Sociofuncionalismo, proposto por Tavares (2003). A análise é feita em quatro etapas: na primeira, analisamos as variantes de futuro iminente; em seguida, as variantes de futuro médio, depois, as variantes de futuro resultativo e, por último, é dedicada uma seção para análise da variante denominada gerundismo. Os resultados confirmam que o fenômeno em estudo é influenciado por fatores de uma natureza distinta: fatores sociais, tais como o sexo e a profissão dos falantes e fatores linguísticos como o tipo do verbo (verbos auxiliares ou modais) e presença de uma marca de tempo futuro.

Prefix ex- u latinských sloves a jeho aspektová funkce Latin Verbal Prefix ex- in Regard of Aspect - disertační práce - Mgr. Martina Vaníková Summary The proposed thesis titled Latin Verbal Prefix ex- in Regard of Aspect is a pilot study that deals with the ways of expressing aspect in Latin, which is based on the detailed analysis of the functions of the verbal prefix ex- as one of the important components of this category. It also tries to find the method for the future research on the matter. In the theoretical part of the thesis the author gives summary of existing theories on aspect in general, with special attention given to the theories on aspect in the Czech and Latin language. The author defines the terms "aspect", "Aktionsart" and "situation type" at great length, and she particularly sets light to the term "telicity", distinguishing the "inherent telicity" from "maximizing". The practical part consist of: 1. a detailed analysis of all the occurrences of the indicative imperfect of the verbs with the prefix ex- from the corpus, which comprises of all well-preserved Latin texts from Plautus to Cicero; 2. an analysis of the indicative future and present tense forms of the selected verbs with the prefix ex-. Based on the analysis of the imperfect, the author verifies her hypothesis that the prefix...