Proto-Indo-European syntax and its development /

Proto-Indo-European syntax and its development /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; 75 Benjamins current topics ; v. 75.
Subject:	Proto-Indo-European language -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Language acquisition. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Language acquisition. Proto-Indo-European language -- Syntax.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907511

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Other authors / contributors:	Kulikov, L. I., editor. Lavidas, Nikolaos, editor.
ISBN:	9789027268280 9027268282 9789027242631
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction, because they are able to provide unambiguous correspondences and objective measurements, thus guaranteeing wide-range applicability and quantitative exactness. This article discusses a set of experiments explicitly designed to evaluate the impact of parametric syntax in representing historical relatedness, and performed on a selection of 26 contemporary.
Other form:	Print version: Proto-Indo-European syntax and its development. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027242631

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Preface
2. Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European categories
3. The\rise of `subordination features' in the history of Greek and their decline
4. Proto-Indo-European verb-finality
5. Hittite pai- `go' and uwa- `come' as Restructuring Verbs
6. Reconstructing passive and voice in Proto-Indo-European
7. Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages
8. Subject index