Grammatical Reconstruction

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The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea, Studies in Language Change [SLC] 16

ISBN: 3110615142
ISBN 13: 9783110615142
Autor: Daniels, Don
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Umfang: XII, 344 S., 7 s/w Illustr., 72 s/w Tab., 7 b/w ill., 72 b/w tbl.
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

The series Studies in Language Change presents empirically based research that extends knowledge about historical relations among the world’s languages without restriction to any particular language family or region. While not devoted explicitly to theoretical explanations, the series hopes to contribute to the advancement in understandings of language change as well as adding to the store of well-analysed historical-comparative data on the world’s languages.

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

Don Daniels, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.

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