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024 7 _a10.1163/9789004392007
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245 0 0 _aReconstructing syntax /
_cedited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luján.
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aBrill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ;
_v11
490 1 _aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _aDuring 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aComparative linguistics
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aConstruction grammar
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aGrammar, Comparative and general
_xSyntax
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aHistorical linguistics
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aLinguistic change
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aReconstruction (Linguistics)
_vCase studies.
700 0 _aJóhanna Barðdal,
_d1969-
_eeditor.
700 1 _aGildea, Spike,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aLuján, Eugenio R.,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tReconstructing Syntax,
_dLeiden Boston : BRILL, 2020
_w9789004391994
830 0 _aBrill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ;
_v11.
830 0 _aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004392007
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