Reconstructing syntax /

"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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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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