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 |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PRAGMATICS OF WORD ORDER FLEXIBILITY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- References
- Is Basic Word Order Universal?
- 1. Word order in some perplexing cases
- 2. Standard strategies for detecting basic order and pragmatically based languages
- 3. Word order typology and pragmatically based ordering
- 4. The pragmatically based type
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Basic Word Order in Two ""Free Word Order"" Languages
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Some elementary observations on word order and use.
- 2. Grammar and basic word order in Papago
- 3. Grammar and basic word order in Warlpiri
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- The Privilege of Primacy Experimental Data and Cognitive Explanations
- Primacy effects in sentence and discourse comprehension
- The Structure Building Framework
- The Advantage of First Mention in sentences
- The Advantage of First Mention versus the Advantage of Clause Recency
- Primacy effects in sentence production
- Notes
- References
- Information Distribution in Ojibwa
- Introduction
- Symptomatic analysis of Ojibwa syntax.
- Direct analysis of Ojibwa text
- Further observations
- Notes
- References
- Nonidentifiable Information and Pragmatic Order Rules in 'O'odham
- 1. Introduction
- 2. 'O'odham constituent order
- 3. Nonidentifiable mentions
- Notes
- References
- Word Order in Klamath
- 1. Methodology
- 2. Object of investigation
- 3. Quantitative results
- 4. Discussion
- Notes
- References
- Word Order and Topicality in Nez Perce
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Flexible word order
- 2. Independent pronouns
- 3. Results of topicality measurements
- Notes
- Verb-Subject Order in Polish.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data base
- 3. Discourse properties of the subject
- 4. Grammatical/semantic properties of subject
- 5. Properties of constituents other than the subject
- 6. Properties of verb
- 7. Discussion
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- The Pragmatics of Word Order Variationin Chamorro Narrative Text
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data and methodology
- 3. Some sample VS and SV sentences
- 4. Principle 1: Word order inversion as a correlate of referential continuity
- 5. Principle 2: Word order inversion as a correlate of thematic continuity.
- 6. Explicit reference and ambiguity resolution
- 7. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Word Order and Temporal Sequencing
- Notes
- References
- Word Order and Discourse Type An Austronesian Example
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fronted NPs across languages
- 3. Discourse typology
- 4. Pre-verbal NPs in Agutaynen
- 5. Observations
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- References
- Addendum
- Additional references
- On Interpreting Text-Distributional Correlations Some Methodological Issues
- 1. Background
- 2. Form-function distributional correlations in text.