On Reconstructing Grammar : Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax
by
Spike Gildea
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
ISBN-10
019510952X
ISBN-13
9780195109528
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1998
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
612 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.00 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Grammar, syntax & morphology
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An analysis of grammar which claims that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages, illustrated by the Cariban language family of South America. The text is volume 18 in the OXFORD STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS series.
Gildea has two goals in this book, first to argue that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages; and second to give a detailed case study of this methodology in examining the typologically interesting Cariban language family in South America -- a group of languages which has provided counterexamples to a number of proposed typological universals of morphosyntax. His conclusions challenge a long-standing tradition which asserts that syntax cannot be reconstructed. It will interest linguists working on South American languages as well as on grammaticalization, and linguists working in the descriptive or functional traditions.
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