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Reconstructing grammar : comparative linguistics and grammaticalization /

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticaliz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Rice University Symposium on Linguistics
Otros Autores: Gildea, Spike
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : John Benjamins, ©2000.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; vol. 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Areal typology and grammaticalization : the emergence of new verbal morphology in an obsolescent language / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  • Florescence as a force in grammaticalization / Wallace Chafe
  • On the genesis of the verb phrase in Cariban languages : diversity through reanalysis / Spike Gildea
  • Internal reconstruction : as method, as theory / T. Givón
  • The concept of proof in genetic linguistics / Joseph H. Greenberg
  • Grammaticalization chains across languages : an example from Khoisan / Bernd Heine
  • The accidental intransitive split in the Cariban family / Sérgio Meira
  • The reordering of morphemes / Marianne Mithun.