설명
This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the methodology, seven morphosyntactically distinct verbal systems in the Cariban family--three ergative, three nominative, and one inverse--are reconstructed. Spike Gildea presents detailed data in his reconstruction of Proto-Carib verbal and nominal morphologies. The inverse verbal system reconstructs to Proto-Carib; the other six are innovative, and reconstruct to Proto-Carib nonfinite source-constructions.
책 세부 정보
형식
하드커버
페이지
304 페이지
언어
영어
출판됨
9월 3, 1998
출판사
Oxford University Press
판본
판본 2개
ISBN-10
019510952X
ISBN-13
9780195109528