Principles of syntactic reconstruction
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Principles of syntactic reconstruction
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 302）
John Benjamins, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on diachronic syntax, it combines the perspectives of the traditional philological research on syntactic reconstruction with the insights of modern syntactic theory, as it is emphasised in the Foreword by Giuseppe Longobardi. The volume includes articles by well-recognized researchers in historical linguistics with a focus on syntactic change. In the present volume syntactic reconstruction is discussed from a variety of angles, including historical linguistics, phenomena of language contact, generative approaches as well as typological and variationist research. In the articles, languages from a diverse range of families are discussed, including Indo-European, North and South Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, and Turkic.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. Foreword (by Longobardi, Giuseppe)
- 3. Syntactic reconstruction: Methods and new insights (by Ferraresi, Gisella)
- 4. How much syntactic reconstruction is possible? (by Pires, Acrisio)
- 5. Reconstruction in syntax: Reconstruction of patterns (by Harris, Alice C.)
- 6. Reconstructing complex structures: A typological perspective (by Mengden, Ferdinand von)
- 7. Competitive Indo-European syntax (by Luhr, Rosemarie)
- 8. Principles of syntactic reconstruction and "morphology as paleosyntax": The case of some Indo-European secondary verbal formations (by Balles, Irene)
- 9. Syntactic change and syntactic borrowing in generative grammar (by Bowern, Claire)
- 10. Index
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