Relative Clauses in Proto-Indo-European
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 27 March 2026
- 09 April 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009664196
- 9781009664202
- 9781009664172
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This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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- (216 x 140 mm)
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- 0.655kg, 406 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 140 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.502kg, 406 Pages
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Although the unattested language of Proto-Indo-European has been studied for over 200 years, the greater part of this literature has focused on its phonology and morphology, with comparatively little known of its syntax. This book aims to redress the balance by reconstructing the syntax of relative clauses. It examines evidence from a wide range of archaic Indo-European languages, analysing them through the lens of generative linguistic theory. It also explains the methodological challenges of syntactic reconstruction and how they may be tackled. Ram-Prasad also alights on a wide range of points of comparative interest, including pronominal morphology, discourse movement and Wackernagel's Law. This book will appeal to classicists interested in understanding the Latin and Greek languages in their Indo-European context, as well as to trained comparative philologists and historical linguists with particular interests in syntax and reconstruction.
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Dedication
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1 - Introduction
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2 - Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Indo-European
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3 - Relative Clauses in Minimalism and Indo-European
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4 - The Relative Pronoun(s) of Proto-Indo-European
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5 - Clitics and the Left Periphery in Proto-Indo-European
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6 - Relative Clauses in Proto-Indo-European
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7 - Conclusions
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