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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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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  • 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.