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It explains word-order patterns in different languages and at different structural levels, and critically evaluates (and, where possible, compares) the theoretical assumptions and word-order principles used in the
Dec 31, 2015 · This article is mostly concerned with general ordering principles and the three main linguistic categories that are relevant for constituent order research: formal, functional, and semantic...
Sep 19, 2020 · A brief introduction on word order is given as introduction. The word order parameters have been discussed as they are relevant in typologizing a language based on these parameters. The...
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Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating word order research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks – linguistic typology, generative ...
The Basic Word Order ypTology. One of typology's most celebrated themes, popularized by Greenberg (1963) in a study comprising 30 languages. Since then, basic-word-order statistics from ever wider arrays of languages have been presented. IHawkins 1983: 336 languages.
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1 Word order typology. 1.1 Relative order of S, O, and V. Relative order of S, O, and V. Typologically, it is common to describe languages in terms of the relative order of the subject (S), the object (O), and the verb (V). This gives rise to six logically possible types.
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This article explains how basic word order is determined in linguistic typology. The concept of basic word order is irrelevant to flexible-word-order languages. Hawkins highlights the importance and role of exceptionless universals in constructing a theory of basic word order.
