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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876542803321

Titolo

Word order and scrambling [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Simin Karimi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003

ISBN

1-281-32134-6

9786611321345

0-470-70659-7

0-470-75840-6

0-470-75825-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Collana

Explaining linguistics ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

KarimiSimin

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

Language acquisition

Psycholinguistics

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 (p. [345]-367) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Word Order and Scrambling; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Topic and Focus Scope Positions in Navajo; 2 Argument Scrambling, Operator Movement, and Topic Movement in Hungarian; 3 Grammatical Relations in Tohono O'odham: an Instrumental Perspective; 4 Bare Nominals: Non-Specific and Contrastive Readings under Scrambling; 5 On Object Positions, Specificity, and Scrambling in Persian; 6 Scrambling, Subscrambling, and Case in Turkish; 7 Does Russian Scrambling Exist?; 8 A-Movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality

9 Scrambling in Dutch: Optionality and Optimality10 Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement; 11 Non-Canonical Word Order: Topic and Focus in Adult and Child Tamil; 12 L2 Acquisition of Japanese: Knowledge and Use of Case Particles in SOV and OSV Sentences; 13 Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies, Complexity, and Constraints; 14 WH-Movement versus Scrambling: the Brain Makes a Difference; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Word Order and Scrambling introduces readers to recent research into



the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling and is a valuable contribution to the fields of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics. Introduces readers to recent research into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling, or free word order. Explores major issues including factors responsible for word order variations, how scrambled constructions are processed, and whether variations are available in early child language development and in second language acquisit