Grammatical reconstruction the Sogeram languages of New Guinea
There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in Language Change [SLC] ;
16 |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 344 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110616217 3110616211 9783110616569 3110616564 |