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The free word order phenomenon : its syntactic sources and diversity /

This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. The different articles offer ways of analyzin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sabel, Joachim, 1962-, Saito, Mamoru
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2005.
Series:Studies in generative grammar ; 69.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Left branch extraction, structure of NP, and scrambling / Željko Bošković
  • The discourse configurationality of scrambling / Günther Grewendorf
  • Scrambling in the cleft construction in dravidian / K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli
  • Asymmetries between pre-verbal and post-verbal scrambling in Turkish / Jaklin Kornfilt
  • EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling / Shigeru Miyagawa
  • On the acquisition of scrambling in Japanese / Keiko Murasugi and Tomoko Kawamura
  • Scrambling and information focus: VSO-VOS alternation in Tongan / Yuko Otsuka
  • String-vacuous scrambling and the effect on output condition / Joachim Sabel
  • Further notes on the interpretation of scrambling chains / Mamoru Saito.