In this paper I argue that previous analyses of a class of inverted sentences in Modern Hebrew capture frequent correlations, but not hard constraints...
Keywords: Modern Hebrew, information packaging, thetic, categorical, constructions
07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterIt has long been observed that many languages from all over the world require that certain grammatical categories (e.g., person, number, tense, modality) occur in the “second position” of a clause...
Keywords: Australian languages, auxiliary, clitic, clitic cluster, cliticisation, focus, Garrwa, grammaticalisation, information packaging, pronoun, second position, tense-aspect-modality, Wambaya, Warlpiri, word order
12/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter