The Humble petition of many well-affected persons of Somerset, Wilts and some part of Devon, Dorset and Hampshire to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England against tythes [[electronic resource] ] : together with the Parliaments answer thereunto and resolves thereupon

• Record Nr.: UNISA996391209203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for Livewel Chapman, 1659
• Descrizione fisica: 6 p
• Soggetti: Church tax - England; Tithes - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0160

Pragmatics of word order flexibility [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Doris L. Payne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781277903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992
• ISBN: 1-283-09273-5; 90-272-2906-6; 90-272-8590-X; 9786613092731
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Collana: Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 22
• Altri autori (Persone): PayneDoris L. <1952->
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order; Pragmatics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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