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Grammatical Reconstruction : The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea / Don Daniels.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 16Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XII, 344 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110615142
  • 9783110616569
  • 9783110616217
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  • 400
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methodology -- Chapter 3. Phonology -- Chapter 4. Verbs and Verb Morphology -- Chapter 5. Nominal Morphology -- Chapter 6. Syntactic Constructions -- Chapter 7. Lexical Reconstructions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methodology -- Chapter 3. Phonology -- Chapter 4. Verbs and Verb Morphology -- Chapter 5. Nominal Morphology -- Chapter 6. Syntactic Constructions -- Chapter 7. Lexical Reconstructions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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