Research Catalog

Title

Reconstructing syntax / edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luján.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Additional Authors

• Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969-
• Gildea, Spike
• Luján, Eugenio R.

Description

x, 377 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"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) conclusion: "[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we'll eat the pudding." This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax"--

Series Statement

Brill's studies in historical linguistics, 2211-4904 ; volume 11

Uniform Title

Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 11.

Subject

• Reconstruction (Linguistics) > Case studies
• Construction grammar > Case studies
• Linguistic change > Case studies
• Historical linguistics > Case studies
• Comparative linguistics > Case studies
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Case studies
• Comparative linguistics
• Construction grammar
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Historical linguistics
• Linguistic change
• Reconstruction (Linguistics)
• Historische Sprachwissenschaft
• Konstruktionsgrammatik
• Rekonstruktion
• Sprachwandel
• Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• Grammaire comparée > Syntaxe
• Changement linguistique > Syntaxe
• Grammaire de construction > Syntaxe
• Linguistique historique
• Grammar, Comparative and general

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 23-2801

ISBN

• 9789004391994
• 9004391991

LCCN

2020011983

OCLC

1139889386

Title

Reconstructing syntax / edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luján.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's studies in historical linguistics, 2211-4904 ; volume 11

Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969- editor.

Gildea, Spike, editor.

Luján, Eugenio R., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Reconstructing syntax Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004392007 (DLC) 2020011984

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2801