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Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility.

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Payne, Doris L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.