The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity (Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg]) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3119164070 ISBN 13: 9783119164078

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2005

Synopsis

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 analyzing free word order under minimalist assumptions, with respect to the question of how it is acquired, how a typology of free word order languages can be derived, and in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors.

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About the Author

Joachim Sabel is Professor of German Linguistics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Mamoru Saito is Professor of Linguistics at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.

Review

"The articles in this volume represent the most recent and most advanced thinking on free word order phenomena in the languages discussed, and as such Sabel & Saito's book will be an invaluable volume for linguists of all persuasions interested in the syntax of free word order."John Frederick Bailyn in: Journal of Linguistics 43/2007

Edition details

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3119164070
• ISBN 13: 9783119164078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Sabel Joachim, Saito Mamoru