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9781556196591

Reconstructing Grammar : Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization

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  • ISBN13:

    9781556196591

  • ISBN10:

    1556196598

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Areal typology and grammaticalization: The emergence of new verbal morphology in an obsolescent language
1(38)
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Florescence as a Force in Grammaticalization
39(26)
Wallace Chafe
On the Genesis of the Verb Phrase in Cariban Languages: Diversity through Reanalysis
65(42)
Spike Gildea
Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory
107(54)
T. Givon
The Concept of Proof in Genetic Linguistics
161(16)
Joseph H. Greenberg
Grammaticalization chains across languages: An example from Khoisan
177(24)
Bernd Heine
The accidental intransitive split in the Cariban family
201(30)
Sergio Meira
The reordering of morphemes
231(28)
Marianne Mithun
Language and Language Family Index 259(2)
Name Index 261(4)
Subject Index 265

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