Grammatical Reconstruction - The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studies in Language Change [SLC]
Release date:	March 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Don Daniels
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	356
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-061514-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech) Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
LSN:	3-11-061514-2
Barcode:	9783110615142

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