Principles of syntactic reconstruction / edited by Gisella Ferraresi, Maria Goldbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferraresi, Gisella.

Goldbach, Maria.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 302.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 302

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Reconstruction (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xvii, 219 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Syntactic reconstruction: Methods and new insights

How much syntactic reconstruction is possible?

Reconstruction in syntax: Reconstruction of patterns

Reconstructing complex structures: A typological perspective

Competitive Indo-European syntax

Principles of syntactic reconstruction and "morphology as paleosyntax": The case of some Indo-European secondary verbal formations

Syntactic change and syntactic borrowing in generative grammar

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104527

9781282104525

1282104527

9789027289889

9027289883