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Costello, John Robert was born on September 12, 1942 in New York City. Son of John and Helen Costello.
( Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A Tagmem...)
Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A Tagmemic Approach shows how to reconstruct syntactic constructions, their constituents, and the functions of these constituents for a protolanguage by applying certain procedures of internal and comparative reconstruction to data from other languages concerned. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Symbols Introduction • The Tagmeme, the Syntagmeme, and Comparative Reconstruction • 1.1 The Tagmeme • 1.2 The Syntagmeme • 1.3 Excursus: Horizontal and Vertical Etic Units • 1.4 Comparative Reconstruction • Tagmemic and Syntagmemic Change • 2.1 One-to-one Replacement • 2.2 Merger • 2.3 Split • 2.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance • 2.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment • Tagmemic, Syntagmemic, Allotagmatic, and Allosyntagmatic Reconstruction • 3.1 One-to-one Replacement • 3.2 Merger • 3.3 Split • 3.4 Amorphous Loss or Disappearance • 3.5 Amorphous Gain or Increment • Syntactosemantic Reconstruction • 4.1 Tagmemic • 4.2 Syntagmemic Bibliography Index
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Costello, John Robert was born on September 12, 1942 in New York City. Son of John and Helen Costello.
Bachelor, Wagner College, 1964; Master of Arts, New York University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1968.
Instructor linguistics, New York University, 1967; assistant professor, New York University, 1968-1972; associate professor, New York University, 1973-1985; professor, New York University, since 1986; department chairman linguistics, New York University, 1986-1993. Consultant Universe Publications, New York City, 1979-1981, Lexik House Publications, Cold Springs, New York, since 1980, New York University Press, 1982, Geers Gross Advertising, New York City, 1988, Toyota Corporation, 1989, FCB/Leber Katz Partners (Advertising Agency), New York City, 1990, Avon Products, Inc., 1991, Doubleday Public, Society for Germanic Philology, Workman's Public, 1994, State University of New York, Albany, 1995.
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Member International Society for History Linguistics, International Linguistic Association(vice president 1979-1981, president 1981-1982), Linguistic Association of Canada and United States, American Society of Geolinguistics, Linguistic Society American, Society for German-American Studies, Society for Germanic Philology, Phi Beta Kappa (president Beta chapter 1984).