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
- 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
- 2.1 One-to-one Replacement
- 2.2 Merger
- 2.3 Split
- 2.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance
- 2.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment
- 3.1 One-to-one Replacement
- 3.2 Merger
- 3.3 Split
- 3.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance
- 3.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment
- 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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