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Pragmatics of word order flexibility / edited by Doris L. Payne.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 22.
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic", with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntacti
- Contents:
- PRAGMATICS OF WORD ORDER FLEXIBILITY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Is Basic Word Order Universal?; Basic Word Order in Two ""Free Word Order"" Languages; The Privilege of Primacy Experimental Data and Cognitive Explanations; Information Distribution in Ojibwa; Nonidentifiable Information and Pragmatic Order Rules in 'O'odham; Word Order in Klamath; Word Order and Topicality in Nez Perce; Verb-Subject Order in Polish; The Pragmatics of Word Order Variationin Chamorro Narrative Text; Word Order and Temporal Sequencing
- Word Order and Discourse Type An Austronesian ExampleOn Interpreting Text-Distributional Correlations Some Methodological Issues; The series Typological Studies in Language
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-09273-5
- 90-272-2906-6
- 90-272-8590-X
- 9786613092731
- OCLC:
- 714568554
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