Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages Paperback
Edited by Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Gillian Ramchand
Part of the Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes series
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This volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia.
These languages are interesting precisely because they exhibit such great flexibility in their word orders while not being completely non-configurational; and data from these languages have been the source of much recent research and controversy in this domain.
The papers in this volume bring together both theoretical and empirical perspectives on word order variability within a wide variety of South Asian languages.
They contribute particularly to a fuller description and understanding of the phenomena.
They examine the extent to which linear precedence relations (word order) are determined/constrained by lexical, discourse, or purely syntactic levels of organization; and to what extent they represent an independent system of organisation with its own language-particular constraints and relations.
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- Pages:286 pages, Illustrations
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- Publication Date:01/06/1994
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- ISBN:9781881526490
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:286 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:01/06/1994
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- ISBN:9781881526490
