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Reconstructing syntax

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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.

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No. Panggil

415 REC r

Penerbit

Leiden : Brill., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

xii, 378p. : ill.

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9789004392007

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415

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Subjek

Reconstruction (Linguistics) -- Case studies
Construction grammar -- Case studies
Linguistic change -- Case studies.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax

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