Syntactic Reconstruction And Proto Germanic
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Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto Germanic
Author | : George Walkden |
Publsiher | : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198712299 |
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This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological reconstruction of Proto-Germanic, little is currently known about the syntax of the language, and it has even been argued that the reconstruction of syntax is impossible. Dr Walkden uses extensive evidence from the early Germanic languages - Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Gothic - to show that syntactic reconstruction is not only possible but also profitable. He argues that while the reconstruction of syntax differs from lexical-phonological reconstruction due to the so-called 'correspondence problem', this is not insurmountable. In fact, the approach taken in current Minimalist theories, in which syntactic variation is attributed to the properties of lexical items, opens the door for syntactic reconstruction as lexical reconstruction. The book also discusses practical solutions for circumventing the correspondence problem, in particular the use of both distributional properties of lexical items and the phonological forms of such items in order to establish cognacy. The book will be of interest to historical linguists working on syntactic reconstruction and the Germanic languages, from graduate level upwards, as well as to advanced students of syntactic change more generally.
Toward a grammar of Proto Germanic
Author | : Frans van Coetsem,Herbert L. Kufner |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111549040 |
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Toward a Grammar of Proto-Germanic.
Oblique Subjects in Germanic
Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2023-09-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111078076 |
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Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.
The Syntax of the Simple Sentence in Proto Germanic
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Author | : Paul J. Hopper |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Proto-Germanic language |
ISBN | : 3111872009 |
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A Diachronic Phonology from Proto Germanic to Old English Stressing West Saxon Conditions
Author | : Charles M. Barrack |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110873511 |
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Reconstructing Syntax
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004392007 |
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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.
Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction
Author | : Gisella Ferraresi,Maria Goldbach |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027248183 |
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This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on diachronic syntax, it combines the perspectives of the traditional philological research on syntactic reconstruction with the insights of modern syntactic theory, as it is emphasised in the Foreword by Giuseppe Longobardi. The volume includes articles by well-recognized researchers in historical linguistics with a focus on syntactic change. In the present volume syntactic reconstruction is discussed from a variety of angles, including historical linguistics, phenomena of language contact, generative approaches as well as typological and variationist research. In the articles, languages from a diverse range of families are discussed, including Indo-European, North and South Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, and Turkic.
Oblique Subjects in Germanic
Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2023-09-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111078014 |
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Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.