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Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages.
Title:
Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages.
Author:
Kiss, Katalin É.
ISBN:
9783110902228
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (526 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.83

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Contents:
Introduction -- The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement and event semantics in Older Egyptian -- The nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian -- Genitive constructions in Coptic -- Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian -- Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian -- VSO and left-conjunct agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew -- IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems -- The syntax of Classical Greek infinitive -- Latin object and subject infinitive clauses -- Latin word order in generative perspective: An explanatory proposal within the sentence domain -- Some firm points on Latin word order: The left periphery -- Classical Sanskrit, "wild trees", and the properties of free word order languages -- A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour -- Index -- List of contributors.
Abstract:
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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