The Free Word Order Phenomenon : : Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity /

The Free Word Order Phenomenon : : Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity / / ed. by Joachim Sabel, Mamoru Saito.

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This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) 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. In the past, the syntax of free...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Amritavalli, R.,
Bošković, Željko,
Grewendorf, Günther,
Jayaseelan, K. A.,
Kawamura, Tomoko,
Kornfilt, Jaklin,
Miyagawa, Shigeru,
Murasugi, Keiko,
Otsuka, Yuko,
Sabel, Joachim,
Saito, Mamoru,
HerausgeberIn:
Sabel, Joachim,
Saito, Mamoru,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2005
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 69
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Physical Description:1 online resource (382 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Left branch extraction, structure of NP, and
  • scrambling
  • The discourse configurationality of
  • scrambling
  • Scrambling in the cleft construction in
  • Dravidian
  • Asymmetries between pre-verbal and post-verbal
  • scrambling in Turkish
  • EPP and semantically cacuous scrambling
  • On the acquisition of scrambling in
  • Japanese
  • Scrambling and information focus: VSO-VOS
  • alternation in Tongan
  • String-vacuous scrambling and the Effect on Output
  • Condition
  • Further notes on the interpretation of scrambling
  • chains
  • Backmatter

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