The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity

ISBN-13: 9783110178227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 382 str.

Joachim Sabel; Mamoru Saito

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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

O autorze

Joachim Sabel is Professor of German Linguistics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Mamoru Saito is Professor of Linguistics at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.