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Reconstructing Syntax

Reconstructing Syntax

Barðdal, Jóhanna
Gildea, Spike
R. Lujan, Eugenio

Hardcover

EtymologyGrammar & Style

ISBN10: 9004391991
ISBN13: 9789004391994
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 18 2020
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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