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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniels, Don
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 16
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Methodology
  • Chapter 3. Phonology
  • Chapter 4. Verbs and Verb Morphology
  • Chapter 5. Nominal Morphology
  • Chapter 6. Syntactic Constructions
  • Chapter 7. Lexical Reconstructions
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index