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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:01:48
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: Reconstructing Syntax: Barðdal, Gildea, Luján (eds.)

 


Title: Reconstructing Syntax 
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/54246 


Editor: Jóhanna Barðdal
Editor: Spike Gildea
Editor: Eugenio R. Luján

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004392007 Pages: 378 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004391994 Pages: 378 Price: Europe EURO 119


Abstract:

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.

Available through Open Access.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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