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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810303503321

Autore

Payne Doris L. <1952->

Titolo

The pragmatics of word order : typological dimensions of verb initial languages / / Doris L. Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1990

ISBN

3-11-084728-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages) : map

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; ; 7

Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 7

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

Typology (Linguistics)

Pragmatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Constituent Order and Order Correlations -- Chapter Three. Clausal Phenomena -- Chapter Four. Noun and Postpositional Phrase Phenomena -- Chapter Five. Noun Classification and Nominalization -- Chapter Six. The Verb Phrase and Related Issues -- Chapter Seven. Pragmatic Factors Motivating Order Variation -- Chapter Eight. Constituent Order in Yagua: Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix 1: Lagarto (Alligator) Text -- Appendix 2: Phonology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter