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Philologists 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.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Extinct languages --- Extinct languages. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Dead languages --- Languages, Extinct --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Grammar, Comparative --- Language obsolescence --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Langues mortes --- Generative Linguistics. --- Indo-Germanic. --- Language Reconstruction.

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Generatieve spraakkunst --- Generative grammar --- Grammaire générative --- Grammaire transformationnelle --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] -- Derivation --- Grammar [Generative ] --- Grammar [Transformational ] --- Grammar [Transformational generative ] --- Grammatica [Generatieve ] --- Grammatica [Transformationele ] --- Spraakkunst [Generatieve ] --- Spraakkunst [Transformationele ] --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Transformationele grammatica --- Transformationele spraakkunst --- Transformationele taaltheorie --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammaire générative --- Sujet et prédicat --- Topic and comment --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Psycholinguistics --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Derivation --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Generative grammar. --- Topic and comment. --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Linguistics --- semantiek --- syntaxis --- linguïstiek

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This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, aspect, focusing, negation, and negative quantification, among others. The results reported concern the telicising vs. perfectivizing role of the verbal particle; the syntactic and semantic differences of verbs denoting a delimited change, and those denoting creation or coming into being; evidence of viewpoint aspect in a language with no morphological viewpoint marking; the aspectual role of non-thematic objects; the source of the ‘exhaustive identification’ function of structural focus; the interaction of negation and aspect etc.

Hungarian language --- Syntax. --- Grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Semantics. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax