31.1065, Books: Grammatical Reconstruction: Daniels

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:30:19
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Grammatical Reconstruction: Daniels

 


Title: Grammatical Reconstruction 
Subtitle: The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea 
Series Title: Studies in Language Change [SLC]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/3cIEI4q 


Author: Don Daniels

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110615142 Pages: 344 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how,
or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a
comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a
constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that
methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in
Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal
morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work
culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's
original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology
to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language
to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language
reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Central Papuan


Written In: English  (eng)

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