Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax
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Book
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ISBN 10
019510952X
ISBN 13
9780195109528
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Publication Year
1998
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304
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This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the methodology, seven morphosyntactically distinct verbal systems in the Cariban family--three ergative, three nominative, and one inverse--are reconstructed. Spike Gildea presents detailed data in his reconstruction of Proto-Carib verbal and nominal morphologies. The inverse verbal system reconstructs to Proto-Carib; the other six are innovative, and reconstruct to Proto-Carib nonfinite source-constructions.
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