Reconstructing Syntax
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Word Count
94,250 words, Guess
Page Count
377 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28100536M
- ISBN-139789004391994
- OCLC Control Number1139889386
- Library of Congress Control Number2020011983
Classifications
- LCCP143.2.R43 2020
Description
"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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