Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction: 302 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027248184 ISBN 13: 9789027248183

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2008

Synopsis

This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on diachronic syntax, it combines the perspectives of the traditional philological research on syntactic reconstruction with the insights of modern syntactic theory, as it is emphasised in the Foreword by Giuseppe Longobardi. The volume includes articles by well-recognized researchers in historical linguistics with a focus on syntactic change. In the present volume syntactic reconstruction is discussed from a variety of angles, including historical linguistics, phenomena of language contact, generative approaches as well as typological and variationist research. In the articles, languages from a diverse range of families are discussed, including Indo-European, North and South Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, and Turkic.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027248184
• ISBN 13: 9789027248183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Ferraresi Gisella, Goldbach Maria