Grammatical Reconstruction
The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea
Seiten
2022
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-077713-0 (ISBN)
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-077713-0 (ISBN)
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.
Don Daniels, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.01.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 16 |
Zusatzinfo | 7 b/w ill., 72 b/w tbl. |
Verlagsort | Basel/Berlin/Boston |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 681 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Comparative Method • Diachronic Construction Grammar • Konstruktionsgrammatik • Papua NeuGuinea • Syntactic Reconstruction • Syntax • Trans New Guinea • Vergleichende Methode |
ISBN-10 | 3-11-077713-4 / 3110777134 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-077713-0 / 9783110777130 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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