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Reconstructing syntax /

"During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot's (2002: 625) conc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969- (Editor ), Gildea, Spike (Editor ), Luján, Eugenio R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Colección:Brill's studies in historical linguistics, vol.11
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Curious Case of Reconstruction in Syntax / Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luján and Jóhanna Barðdal
  • Part I. Cognacy: 2. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families / Spike Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves
  • 3. Conducting Syntactic Reconstruction of Languages with No Written Records / Kikusawa Ritsuko
  • 4. External Possessor Constructions in Indo-European / Silvia Luraghi
  • 5. How to Identify Cognates in Syntax? Taking Watkins' Legacy One Step Further / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson
  • Part II. Directionality: 6. On the Origins of the Ergative Marker wã in the Viceitic Languages of the Chibchan Family / Sara Pacchiarotti
  • 7. Voice, Transitivity and Tense/Aspect: Directionality of Change in Indo-European (Evidence from Greek and Vedic) / Nikolaos Lavidas and Leonid Kulikov
  • 8. On Shared Structural Innovations: the Diachrony of Adverbial Subordination in Semitic / Na'ama Pat-El
  • 9. Reconstructing Semantic Roles: Proto-Indo-European *-bhi / Eugenio R. Luján and Ángel López Chala
  • Index.