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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
Otros Autores: Payne, Doris L., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1992.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789027285904
902728590X
ISSN:0167-7373 ;