TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jóhanna Barðdal,
AU  - Gildea,Spike
AU  - Luján,Eugenio R.
TI  - Reconstructing syntax
T2  - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
SN  - 9789004392007
AV  - P143.2 
U1  - 415 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Comparative linguistics
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Construction grammar
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Reconstruction (Linguistics)
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004392007
ER  -