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Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A Tagmemic Approach

Author(s):
Costello, John R
Description: 

Shows how to reconstruct syntactic constructions, their constituents, and the functions of these constituents for a protolanguage by applying certain procedures of internal and comparative reconstruction to data from other languages concerned.

Table of Contents: 

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Symbols
Introduction

  1. The Tagmeme, the Syntagmeme, and Comparative Reconstruction
  • 1.1 The Tagmeme
  • 1.2 The Syntagmeme
  • 1.3 Excursus: Horizontal and Vertical Etic Units
  • 1.4 Comparative Reconstruction

  • Tagmemic and Syntagmemic Change
    • 2.1 One-to-one Replacement
    • 2.2 Merger
    • 2.3 Split
    • 2.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance
    • 2.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment

  • Tagmemic, Syntagmemic, Allotagmatic, and Allosyntagmatic Reconstruction
    • 3.1 One-to-one Replacement
    • 3.2 Merger
    • 3.3 Split
    • 3.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance
    • 3.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment

  • Syntactosemantic Reconstruction
    • 4.1 Tagmemic
    • 4.2 Syntagmemic
    Series Volume: 
    68
    Issue Date: 
    1983
    Extent: 
    xxvii, 79 pages
    ISBN 13: 
    978-0883120927
    Subject: 
    Tagmemic Theory
    Language Change
    Comparative and Historical Studies
    ISBN 10: 
    0883120925
    Size: 
    6 × 9 × 0.22 in
    Weight: 
    0.4 lb
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