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Scrambling and the survive principle /
Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively 'free' word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that "...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 115. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively 'free' word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that " ... the problems involved in specifying exactly the subset of the strings which will be generated ... are far too complicated for me to even mention here, let alone come to grips with" (1967:52). This book offers a radical re-analysis of middle field Scrambling. It argues that Scrambling is a concatenation effect, as. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027291967 9027291969 |