John R Costello

Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: a Tagmemic Approach (Sil International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol.68) John R Costello

Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A Tagmemic Approach shows how to reconstruct syntactic constructions, their constituents, and the functions of these constituents for a protolanguage by applying certain procedures of internal and comparative reconstruction to data from other languages concerned.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Symbols
Introduction

1. The Tagmeme, the Syntagmeme, and Comparative Reconstruction

• 1.1 The Tagmeme
• 1.2 The Syntagmeme
• 1.3 Excursus: Horizontal and Vertical Etic Units
• 1.4 Comparative Reconstruction

Tagmemic and Syntagmemic Change

• 2.1 One-to-one Replacement
• 2.2 Merger
• 2.3 Split
• 2.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance
• 2.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment

Tagmemic, Syntagmemic, Allotagmatic, and Allosyntagmatic Reconstruction

• 3.1 One-to-one Replacement
• 3.2 Merger
• 3.3 Split
• 3.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance
• 3.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment

Syntactosemantic Reconstruction

• 4.1 Tagmemic
• 4.2 Syntagmemic

Bibliography
Index