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...

Table of Contents

• 1. The Curious Case of Reconstruction in Syntax / Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Luja´n and Jo´hanna Barðdal
• Part I. Cognacy: 2. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families / Spike Gildea and Fla´via de Castro Alves
• 3. Conducting Syntactic Reconstruction of Languages with No Written Records / Kikusawa Ritsuko
• 4. External Possessor Constructions in Indo-European / Silvia Luraghi
• 5. How to Identify Cognates in Syntax? Taking Watkins' Legacy One Step Further / Jo´hanna Barðdal and Tho´rhallur Eytho´rsson
• Part II. Directionality: 6. On the Origins of the Ergative Marker wa~ in the Viceitic Languages of the Chibchan Family / Sara Pacchiarotti
• 7. Voice, Transitivity and Tense/Aspect: Directionality of Change in Indo-European (Evidence from Greek and Vedic) / Nikolaos Lavidas and Leonid Kulikov
• 8. On Shared Structural Innovations: the Diachrony of Adverbial Subordination in Semitic / Na'ama Pat-El
• 9. Reconstructing Semantic Roles: Proto-Indo-European *-bhi / Eugenio R. Luja´n and A´ngel Lo´pez Chala
• Index.