Reconstructing Syntax
Johanna Barddal
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Reconstructing Syntax
by Johanna Barddal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Lujan
Published
2020
Publisher
BRILL
Pages
377
ISBN-13
9789004391994
Description
"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"--
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For most readers, Reconstructing Syntax typically takes between 7h 51m and 5h 14m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 94,250 words and common reading speeds.
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Who is the author of Reconstructing Syntax?
Reconstructing Syntax was written by Johanna Barddal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio R. Lujan.
When was Reconstructing Syntax published?
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