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"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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969- (Editor), Gildea, Spike (Editor), Luján, Eugenio R. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (Linguistics) > Case studies.
Construction grammar > Case studies.
Linguistic change > Case studies.
Historical linguistics > Case studies.
Comparative linguistics > Case studies.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Case studies.
Comparative linguistics.
Construction grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Historical linguistics.
Linguistic change.
Reconstruction (Linguistics)
Historische Sprachwissenschaft.
Konstruktionsgrammatik.
Rekonstruktion.
Sprachwandel.
Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft.
Case studies.

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