Indo-European syntax
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field of study
subfield of Indo-European studies
subfield of comparative linguistics
syntactic theory
Indo-European syntax is the study of sentence structure and grammatical relationships in Indo-European languages, often reconstructed and compared across ancient and modern members of the language family.
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| Indo-European syntax canonical | 2 |
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field of study
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subfield of Indo-European studies ⓘ subfield of comparative linguistics ⓘ syntactic theory ⓘ |
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comparative method
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corpus-based analysis of ancient texts ⓘ internal reconstruction ⓘ typological comparison ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
comparison of ancient and modern Indo-European languages
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diachronic change in Indo-European clause structure ⓘ reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European clause types ⓘ reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European relative clauses ⓘ reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European subordination patterns ⓘ reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European word order ⓘ |
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Hittite syntax
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Homeric Greek syntax ⓘ Latin syntax ⓘ Old Church Slavonic syntax ⓘ Old Irish syntax ⓘ Vedic Sanskrit syntax ⓘ |
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SOV word order hypotheses for Proto-Indo-European
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development of prepositions from adpositions and case markers ⓘ free word order phenomena in early Indo-European languages ⓘ interaction of syntax and information structure in Indo-European ⓘ rise of fixed word order in daughter languages ⓘ role of case in encoding grammatical relations ⓘ |
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Indo-European historical grammar
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Indo-European morphology ⓘ Indo-European phonology NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-European word formation NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Indo-European language NERFINISHED ⓘ general syntax ⓘ linguistic typology ⓘ |
| studies |
agreement patterns in Indo-European languages
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alignment systems in Indo-European languages ⓘ argument structure in Indo-European languages ⓘ case marking patterns in Indo-European languages ⓘ clause structure in Indo-European languages ⓘ clitic placement in Indo-European languages ⓘ coordination in Indo-European languages ⓘ grammatical relations in Indo-European languages ⓘ infinitival and participial constructions in Indo-European languages ⓘ information structure in Indo-European languages ⓘ interrogative constructions in Indo-European languages ⓘ negation in Indo-European languages ⓘ relative clauses in Indo-European languages ⓘ sentence structure in Indo-European languages ⓘ subordination in Indo-European languages ⓘ syntactic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European ⓘ valency and diathesis in Indo-European languages ⓘ word order change in Indo-European languages ⓘ word order in Indo-European languages ⓘ |
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