Table of Contents: Reconstructing grammar :

Corporate Author:	Rice University Symposium on Linguistics
Other Authors:	Gildea, Spike.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : John Benjamins, ©2000.
Series:	Typological studies in language, vol. 43
Subjects:	Comparative linguistics Grammar, Comparative and general LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative. Comparative linguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253467

Table of Contents:

Areal typology and grammaticalization : the emergence of new verbal morphology in an obsolescent language / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Florescence as a force in grammaticalization / Wallace Chafe
On the genesis of the verb phrase in Cariban languages : diversity through reanalysis / Spike Gildea
Internal reconstruction : as method, as theory / T. Givón
The concept of proof in genetic linguistics / Joseph H. Greenberg
Grammaticalization chains across languages : an example from Khoisan / Bernd Heine
The accidental intransitive split in the Cariban family / Sérgio Meira
The reordering of morphemes / Marianne Mithun.