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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