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On Reconstructing Grammar - Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax (Hardcover): Spike Gildea

On Reconstructing Grammar - Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax (Hardcover)

Spike Gildea

Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 18

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 18
Release date: October 1998
First published: September 1998
Authors: Spike Gildea (Assistant Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 242 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510952-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-510952-X
Barcode: 9780195109528

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