Ramat Paolo (Ed.). Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6-7 September 1979

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1980. — 245 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 19).The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion, as typological insights may provide useful parallels to IE phenomena and problems. At the core of the discussion was the methodological problem of induction vs deduction.Part I: Methodological Questions
Grammatical typology and protolanguages - László Dezső
On reconstructing a proto-syntax - David W. Lightfoot
Iconic and symbolic aspect of syntax: Prospects for reconstruction - Nigel Vincent
Notes on reconstruction, word-order, and stress - Henry M. HoenigswaldPart II: Problems in Indo-European Syntax
Zur Typologie des Vorindogermanischen - Karl Horst Schmidt
The reconstruction of non-simple sentences in Proto-Indo-European - Christian Lehmann
Origin of Indo-European parataxis - Leszek Bednarczuk
Der indogermanischen *kwi-/kwo-Relativsatz im typologischen Vergleich - Christian Lehmann
Les relatives nominales indoueropéennes - Giuseppe Longobardi
IE Complementation - Carol F. Justus
Zur Rekonstruction von Infinitivkonstruktionen im Indogermanischen - Winfried Boeder
On the reconstruction of the syntax of comparison in PIE - Paul Kent Andersen