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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826286703321

Titolo

Pragmatics of word order flexibility / / edited by Doris L. Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992

ISBN

1-283-09273-5

90-272-2906-6

90-272-8590-X

9786613092731

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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