Reconstructing Grammar
Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2000
XIV, 269 pages
978-90-272-9856-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- RECONSTRUCTING GRAMMAR
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Areal typology and grammaticalization: The emergence of new verbal morphology in an obsolescent language
- Florescence as a Force in Grammaticalization
- On the Genesis of the Verb Phrase in Cariban Languages: Diversity through Reanalysis
- Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory
- The Concept of Proof in Genetic Linguistics
- Grammaticalization chains across languages: An example from Khoisan
- The accidental intransitive split in the Cariban family
- The reordering of morphemes
- Language and Language Family Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- The Series TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE
