Download Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order (Oxford by Theresa Biberauer,Michelle Sheehan PDF

By Theresa Biberauer,Michelle Sheehan

This ebook considers the results of cross-linguistic word-order styles for linguistic concept. one of many salient result of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering paintings in language typology was once the inspiration of a 'harmonic' word-order style, wherein if the verb seems to be on the left or correct fringe of the verb word, different heads (e.g. prepositions, nouns) additionally are inclined to achieve this. at the present time, although, there's popularity in either the typological and generative literature that very many,
and in all probability even the vast majority of languages, fail to be totally harmonic within the experience that every one head-complement pairs trend alike. yet does this indicate unlimited edition? The chapters during this quantity, written through overseas students, speak about the problems bobbing up from this easy query, drawing on
data from typologically precise disharmonic languages, together with Mandarin chinese language, Basque, Mócheno (a Tyrolean kind spoken in Northern Italy), French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.

The quantity starts with a considerable creation to the examine of be aware order and its relation to linguistic concept. it really is then divided into sections at the nature of disharmony; the position of prosody; the query of Antisymmetry and novel possible choices to Antisymmetry; and the Final-over-Final Constraint. apart from introducing new empirical findings, the quantity additionally deals quite a number new views on disharmonic observe orders, the prestige of observe order in linguistic thought, and theoretical
accounts of typological gaps.

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