A01=Spike Gildea
Author_Spike Gildea
Category=CFK
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Product details
- ISBN 9780195109528
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Gildea has two goals in this book, first to argue that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages; and second to give a detailed case study of this methodology in examining the typologically interesting Cariban language family in South America -- a group of languages which has provided counterexamples to a number of proposed typological universals of morphosyntax. His conclusions challenge a long-standing tradition which asserts that syntax cannot be reconstructed. It will interest linguists working on South American languages as well as on grammaticalization, and linguists working in the descriptive or functional traditions.
