Reconstructing Syntax

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5813613
AutoresJóhanna Barðdal (0000-0003-0164-4249), Spike Gildea (0000-0002-0362-3065), Eugenio Ramón Luján Martínez (0000-0002-6769-3791), Eugenio R Luján
Año2020
Fecha de publicación2020-01-26
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaReconstructing Syntax (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004392007
OpenAlexW4252823769
ISBN9789004392007
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas20

During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot's (2002: 625) conclusion: "[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we'll eat the pudding." This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax

Identification · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation