Universal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languages / edited by Katalin É. Kiss. - Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005. - vi, 526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in generative grammar ; 83 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement, and event semantics in older Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges -- The nominal cleft construction in coptic Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges, Anikó Lipták, and Lisa Lai Shen Cheng -- Genitive constructions in coptic / Barbara Egedi -- Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian / Gábor Zólyomi -- Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian / Christian Huber -- VSO and left-conjunct agreement: biblical Hebrew vs. modern Hebrew / Edit Doron -- IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems / Annamaria Bartolotta -- The syntax of classical Greek infinitive / Vassilios Spyropoulos -- Latin object and subject infinitive clauses / Lucio Melazzo -- Latin word order in generative perspective: an explanatory proposal within the sentence domain / Chiara Polo -- Some firm points on Latin word order: the left periphery / Giampaolo Salvi -- Classical Sanskrit, "wild trees", and the properties of free word order languages / Brendan Gillon and Benjamin Shaer -- A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour / Emanuele Lanzetta and Lucio Melazzo.

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Grammar, Comparative and general.
Extinct languages.

P151 / .U55 2005

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