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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©1992.
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Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 22. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9789027285904 902728590X |
ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |