Universal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages /
"The authors of this volume analyze Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit as instantations of Universal Grammar, which enables them to explain descriptive problems that proved to be unsolvable for traditional, inductive appro...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2005
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| Series: | Studies in generative grammar ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement, and event semantics in older Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges
- The nominal cleft construction in coptic Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges, Anikó Lipták, and Lisa Lai Shen Cheng
- Genitive constructions in coptic / Barbara Egedi
- Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian / Gábor Zólyomi
- Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian / Christian Huber
- VSO and left-conjunct agreement: biblical Hebrew vs. modern Hebrew / Edit Doron
- IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems / Annamaria Bartolotta
- The syntax of classical Greek infinitive / Vassilios Spyropoulos
- Latin object and subject infinitive clauses / Lucio Melazzo
- Latin word order in generative perspective: an explanatory proposal within the sentence domain / Chiara Polo
- Some firm points on Latin word order: the left periphery / Giampaolo Salvi
- Classical Sanskrit, "wild trees", and the properties of free word order languages / Brendan Gillon and Benjamin Shaer
- A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour / Emanuele Lanzetta and Lucio Melazzo.
