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Basic Word Order (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): Functional Principles

Basic Word Order (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): Functional Principles

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1138964425
ISBN13: 9781138964426
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization. From a database of nearly 1,000 languages and their basic constituent orders, a sample of 400 languages was produced that is statistically representative of both the genetic and areal distributions of the world's languages.

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