Reconstructing Syntax: 11 (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, 11) - Hardcover

Book 13 of 25: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

Johanna Barddal; Spike Gildea; Eugenio R. Lujan

 
9789004391994: Reconstructing Syntax: 11 (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, 11)

Synopsis

Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical syntacticians with evidence that syntactic reconstruction is indeed both theoretically and practically feasible.

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About the Author

Jóhanna Baršdal, 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. Lujįn, 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.

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