Reconstructing Syntax / / edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea, and Eugenio R. Lujan.
"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...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics Series ; Volume 11. |
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| 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. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9004392009 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Spike Gildea, and Eugenio R. Lujan. |