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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order; Pragmatics
• Altri autori: PayneDoris L. <1952->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Pragmatics of word order flexibility
• ISBN: 1-283-09273-5; 90-272-2906-6; 90-272-8590-X; 9786613092731
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826286703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Typological studies in language ; ; v. 22.