Reconstructing Syntax / / edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea, and Eugenio R. Lujan.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics Series ; Volume 11.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969-; Gildea, Spike,; Luján, Eugenio R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; Volume 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

"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) conc...