Reconstructing Syntax
Jóhanna Barðdal · Spike Gildea · Eugenio R. Lujan
Hun 2020 · BRILL
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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.
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: ...
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Jóhanna Barðdal, Ph.D. (2001), Lund University, is a professor at Ghent University. She has published extensively, including monographs and journal articles, on case marking and argument structure, oblique subjects, syntactic productivity, and syntactic reconstruction, focusing on Icelandic, Germanic and Indo-European.
Spike Gildea, Ph.D. (1992), University of Oregon, is a professor at that same university. He has written a monograph and several articles, plus edited several books, on historical syntax, functional typology, and the Cariban language family of South America.
Eugenio R. Luján, Ph.D. (1996), Complutense University of Madrid, is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at that same university. He has published several papers and monographs on various ancient Indo-European languages (especially Mycenaean Greek, Celtic and Palaeohispanic languages), as well as on the morphosyntax of Proto-Indo-European.
Spike Gildea, Ph.D. (1992), University of Oregon, is a professor at that same university. He has written a monograph and several articles, plus edited several books, on historical syntax, functional typology, and the Cariban language family of South America.
Eugenio R. Luján, Ph.D. (1996), Complutense University of Madrid, is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at that same university. He has published several papers and monographs on various ancient Indo-European languages (especially Mycenaean Greek, Celtic and Palaeohispanic languages), as well as on the morphosyntax of Proto-Indo-European.
Jóhanna Barðdal, Ph.D. (2001), Lund University, is a professor at Ghent University. She has published extensively, including monographs and journal articles, on case marking and argument structure, oblique subjects, syntactic productivity, and syntactic reconstruction, focusing on Icelandic, Germ...
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