Reconstruction In Grammar
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Author |
: Don Daniels |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2020-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110616217 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110616211 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grammatical Reconstruction by : Don Daniels
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.
Author |
: Katalin É Kiss |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3110185504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110185508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages by : Katalin É Kiss
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Author |
: Don Daniels |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2020-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110616569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110616564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grammatical Reconstruction by : Don Daniels
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.
Author |
: Spike Gildea |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2000-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027298560 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027298564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Grammar by : Spike Gildea
Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining attested historical change or used internal reconstruction to formulate hypotheses about processes of change. In this collection, some of the leading voices in grammaticalization theory apply their methods to comparative data (largely drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas), showing not only that grammar can be reconstructed, but that the process of reconstructing grammar can yield interesting theoretical and typological insights.
Author |
: Constantin Freitag |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2021-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110725018 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110725010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon by : Constantin Freitag
This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.
Author |
: Spike Gildea |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 019510952X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195109528 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis On Reconstructing Grammar by : Spike Gildea
This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the methodology, seven morphosyntactically distinct verbal systems in the Cariban family--three ergative, three nominative, and one inverse--are reconstructed. Spike Gildea presents detailed data in his reconstruction of Proto-Carib verbal and nominal morphologies. The inverse verbal system reconstructs to Proto-Carib; the other six are innovative, and reconstruct to Proto-Carib nonfinite source-constructions.
Author |
: Anita-Louise Cloutier de De la Garza |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1372 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:14101898 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstruction in Grammar by : Anita-Louise Cloutier de De la Garza
Author |
: Bernd Heine |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2007-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191527838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191527831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genesis of Grammar by : Bernd Heine
"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obstacle by combining grammaticalization theory, one of the main methods of historical linguistics, with work in animal communication and human evolution. The questions they address include: do the modern languages derive from one ancestral language or from more than one? What was the structure of language like when it first evolved? And how did the properties associated with modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language structures? The authors proceed on the assumption that if language evolution is the result of language change then the reconstruction of the former can be explored by deploying the processes involved in the latter. Their measured arguments and crystal-clear exposition will appeal to all those interested in the evolution of language, from advanced undergraduates to linguists, cognitive scientists, human biologists, and archaeologists.
Author |
: Anita-Louise C. de DeLaGarza |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:310703305 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstruction in grammar by : Anita-Louise C. de DeLaGarza
Author |
: Anita-Louise Cloutier De la Garza |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1422 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:506108817 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstruction in Grammar by : Anita-Louise Cloutier De la Garza