Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax write by Paolo Ramat. This book was released on 1980-01-01. Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion, as typological insights may provide useful parallels to IE phenomena and problems. At the core of the discussion was the methodological problem of induction vs deduction.
Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages
Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages write by Vit Bubenik. This book was released on 2009-07-16. Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.
Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction
Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction write by Gisella Ferraresi. This book was released on 2008. Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Linguistic Reconstruction
Linguistic Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistic Reconstruction write by Anthony Fox. This book was released on 1995. Linguistic Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Anthony Fox's new textbook is primarily for students with an elementary knowledge of general linguistics who need an up-to-date introduction to historical linguistics, particularly to new developments in the theory and practice of linguistic reconstruction." -- Back cover.
Perspectives on Historical Syntax
Perspectives on Historical Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Historical Syntax write by Carlotta Viti. This book was released on 2015-04-15. Perspectives on Historical Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.
