Grammatical Reconstruction: The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea: 16 (Studies in Language Change [SLC], 16) - Softcover

Daniels, Don

 
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There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.

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Don Daniels, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.

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ISBN 10:  3110615142 ISBN 13:  9783110615142
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020
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