Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages / / ed. by Katalin É. Kiss.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bartolotta, Annamaria,; Cheng, Lisa Lai Shen,; Doron, Edit,; Egedi, Barbara,; Gillon, Brendan,; Huber, Christian,; Kiss, Katalin É.,; Lanzetta, Emanuele,; Lipták, Anikó,; Melazzo, Lucio,; Polo, Chiara,; Reintges, Chris H.,; Salvi, Giampaolo,; Shaer, Benjamin,; Spyropoulos, Vassilios,; Zólyomi, Gábor,
• HerausgeberIn: Kiss, Katalin É.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 83
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 p.)

Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by a...

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Contents
• Introduction
• The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement and event semantics in Older Egyptian
• The nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian
• Genitive constructions in Coptic
• Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian
• Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian
• VSO and left-conjunct agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew
• IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems
• The syntax of Classical Greek infinitive
• Latin object and subject infinitive clauses
• Latin word order in generative perspective: An explanatory proposal within the sentence domain
• Some firm points on Latin word order: The left periphery
• Classical Sanskrit, “wild trees”, and the properties of free word order languages
• A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour
• Index
• List of contributors