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Kiss, Katalin E., ed. 2005. Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages. (Studies in Generative Grammar 83). De Gruyter. VI+526 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
historical linguistics | language and society | origins of human communication | universal grammar
Language as a subject
Akkadian | Coptic | Egyptian, Ancient | Greek, Ancient | Hebrew, Biblical | Latin | Sanskrit | Sumerian

Annotation

This volume uses Universal Grammar methodology and linguistic theory to examine (morpho)syntactic questions of Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit. Besides crucial new data and new generalizations regarding basic generative syntax, this volume also offers evidence of the fact that human languages do not "develop" analogous to human civilization.