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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill NV
[2020]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Brill's studies in historical linguistics ;
Volume 11. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434037106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Curious Case of Reconstruction in Syntax / Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luja´n and Jo´hanna Barðdal
- Part I. Cognacy: 2. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families / Spike Gildea and Fla´via 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 / Jo´hanna Barðdal and Tho´rhallur Eytho´rsson
- Part II. Directionality: 6. On the Origins of the Ergative Marker wa~ 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. Luja´n and A´ngel Lo´pez Chala
- Index.
