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The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity

The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg], Book 69

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110178222
ISBN13: 9783110178227
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Nov 16 2005
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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 word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain.

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