LEADER 05121nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910463751603321 005 20210624032002.0 010 $a3-11-090222-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110902228 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338612 035 $a(EBL)3041781 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713958 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477112 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713958 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10664585 035 $a(PQKB)11036590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3041781 035 $a(DE-B1597)56727 035 $a(OCoLC)840442845 035 $a(OCoLC)948656429 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110902228 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3041781 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597486 035 $a(OCoLC)922944830 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338612 100 $a20050906d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aUniversal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Katalin E?. Kiss 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (532 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in generative grammar ;$v83 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-018550-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction /$rKiss, Katalin É. --$tThe correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement and event semantics in Older Egyptian /$rReintges, Chris H. --$tThe nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian /$rReintges, Chris H. / Lipták, Anikó / Cheng, Lisa Lai Shen --$tGenitive constructions in Coptic /$rEgedi, Barbara --$tLeft-dislocated possessors in Sumerian /$rZólyomi, Gábor --$tComplex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian /$rHuber, Christian --$tVSO and left-conjunct agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew /$rDoron, Edit --$tIE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems /$rBartolotta, Annamaria --$tThe syntax of Classical Greek infinitive /$rSpyropoulos, Vassilios --$tLatin object and subject infinitive clauses /$rMelazzo, Lucio --$tLatin word order in generative perspective: An explanatory proposal within the sentence domain /$rPolo, Chiara --$tSome firm points on Latin word order: The left periphery /$rSalvi, Giampaolo --$tClassical Sanskrit, "wild trees", and the properties of free word order languages /$rGillon, Brendan / Shaer, Benjamin --$tA particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour /$rLanzetta, Emanuele / Melazzo, Lucio --$tIndex --$tList of contributors 330 $aPhilologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Grammar (more precisely, in terms of a hypothetical model of UG). Their studies, discussing syntactic and morphosyntactic questions of Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit, demonstrate that descriptive problems which have proved unsolvable for the traditional, inductive approach can be reduced to the interaction of regular operations and constraints of UG. The proposed analyses also bear on linguistic theory. They provide crucial new data and new generalizations concerning such basic questions of generative syntax as discourse-motivated movement operations, the correlation of movement and agreement, a shift from lexical case marking to structural case marking, the licensing of structural case in infinitival constructions, the structure of coordinate phrases, possessive constructions with an external possessor, and the role of event structure in syntax. In addition to confirming or refuting certain specific hypotheses, they also provide empirical evidence of the perhaps most basic tenet of generative theory, according to which UG is part of the genetic endowment of the human species - i.e., human languages do not "develop" parallel with the development of human civilization. Some of the languages examined in this volume were spoken as much as 5000 years old, still their grammars do not differ in any relevant respect from the grammars of languages spoken today. 410 0$aStudies in Generative Grammar 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general 606 $aExtinct languages 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general. 615 0$aExtinct languages. 676 $a415 701 $aKiss$b Katalin E?$0388639 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463751603321 996 $aUniversal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages$92455369 997 $aUNINA