Universal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages
By: edited by Katalin É. Kiss.
Contributors: Kiss, Katalin É.
Series: Studies in generative grammar ;; 83
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9783110185508
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general.; Extinct languages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement, and event semantics in older Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges; title: The nominal cleft construction in coptic Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges, Anikó Lipták, and Lisa Lai Shen Cheng; title: Genitive constructions in coptic / Barbara Egedi; title: Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian / Gábor Zólyomi; title: Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian / Christian Huber; title: VSO and left-conjunct agreement: biblical Hebrew vs. modern Hebrew / Edit Doron; title: IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems / Annamaria Bartolotta; title: The syntax of classical Greek infinitive / Vassilios Spyropoulos; title: Latin object and subject infinitive clauses / Lucio Melazzo; title: Latin word order in generative perspective: an explanatory proposal within the sentence domain / Chiara Polo; title: Some firm points on Latin word order: the left periphery / Giampaolo Salvi; title: Classical Sanskrit, "wild trees", and the properties of free word order languages / Brendan Gillon and Benjamin Shaer; title: A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour / Emanuele Lanzetta and Lucio Melazzo.