Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 188152650X ISBN 13 : 9781881526506

Editeur : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion, 1995

Synopsis

This volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia. These languages are interesting precisely because they exhibit such great flexibility in their word orders while not being completely non-configurational; and data from these languages have been the source of much recent research and controversy in this domain. The papers in this volume bring together both theoretical and empirical perspectives on word order variability within a wide variety of South Asian languages. They contribute particularly to a fuller description and understanding of the phenomena. They examine the extent to which linear precedence relations (word order) are determined/constrained by lexical, discourse, or purely syntactic levels of organization; and to what extent they represent an independent system of organisation with its own language-particular constraints and relations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 188152650X
• ISBN 13: 9781881526506
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Éditeur: Butt Miriam, King Tracy Holloway, Ramchand Gillian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible