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A historical view on areal distribution of word order around the world

This paper surveys the history of areal distribution of word order based on data from some 3,000 languages...

Keywords: word order, SOV-type languages, VO type languages

04/2005 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia

It 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

Constituent order change in the Tai languages of Assam

The Tai languages of Assam (India), among them Tai Khamti, are characterised by AVO/SV constituent order, conditioned by a complex interplay of pragmatics, particularly focus structure...

Keywords: adposition, Ahom, discourse, focus, Khamti, linguistic area, Phake, Tai, topicalization, word order, word order change

12/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

(Non-)canonical marking of experiencer objects: a typological comparison of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Modern Greek

This paper examines the syntactic behavior of experiencer objects in Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Modern Greek...

Keywords: experiencer, animacy, passivization, word order, topic marking