TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jóhanna Barðdal,
AU  - Gildea,Spike
AU  - Luján,Eugenio R.
TI  - Reconstructing syntax
T2  - Brill's studies in historical linguistics,
SN  - 9789004392007
AV  - P143.2 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Reconstruction (Linguistics)
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Construction grammar
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Comparative linguistics
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Reconstruction linguistique
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Grammaire de construction
KW  - Changement linguistique
KW  - Linguistique historique
KW  - Syntaxe
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; 1. The Curious Case of Reconstruction in Syntax / Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luján and Jóhanna Barðdal -- Part I. Cognacy: 2. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families / Spike Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves -- 3. Conducting Syntactic Reconstruction of Languages with No Written Records / Kikusawa Ritsuko -- 4. External Possessor Constructions in Indo-European / Silvia Luraghi -- 5. How to Identify Cognates in Syntax? Taking Watkins' Legacy One Step Further / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson -- Part II. Directionality: 6. On the Origins of the Ergative Marker wã in the Viceitic Languages of the Chibchan Family / Sara Pacchiarotti -- 7. Voice, Transitivity and Tense/Aspect: Directionality of Change in Indo-European (Evidence from Greek and Vedic) / Nikolaos Lavidas and Leonid Kulikov -- 8. On Shared Structural Innovations: the Diachrony of Adverbial Subordination in Semitic / Na'ama Pat-El -- 9. Reconstructing Semantic Roles: Proto-Indo-European *-bhi / Eugenio R. Luján and Ángel López Chala -- Index
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwxgs
ER  -