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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2020.
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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.