What Changes in ‘Syntactic Change’? Some Implications for Syntactic Reconstruction
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چکیده
1. Much of the debate surrounding the issue of syntactic reconstruction seems to me to be confounded by a certain degree of terminological (and perhaps conceptual) imprecision. In today’s talk I would like to present some aspects of the problem, walking through how they look to someone who makes the set of assumptions that I make regarding how historical linguistics works, what syntax is, what change is, and what reconstruction is.
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