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The aim of this book is to establish prosodic reconstruction – especially of higher prosodic units such as the intonational or prosodic phrase – as a new subfield of historical-comparative linguistics. Incidentally, it develops a new model for capturing the prosodic structure also of modern languages and introduces a new method for prosodic reconst...
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The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a farming expansion out of Anatolia ~9000 years before present (yr B.P.), while others support a spread wi...
This paper explores how higher-order discourse structures in Platonic dialogue influence the nature, size and shape of individual Elementary Discourse Units, called Discourse Acts. It presents an analysis of the relevant grammatical Layers of the Platonic idiom within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) as well as a linguistic analy...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that texts come in sentences and clauses. All the more so if they stem from ancient Latin or Greek sources. We learn this at school, generations before learned it too, so it must be true. “Traditional grammar”, however, is not particularly objective or neutral. It is a paradigm used for research and teaching,...
