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Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Edited by Doris L. Payne
[Typological Studies in Language 22] 1992
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introduction1
Is basic word order universal?15
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Basic word order in two “free word order” languages63
The privilege of primacy: experimental data and cognitive explanations83
Information distribution in Ojibwa117
Nonidentifiable information and pragmatic order rules in ‘O’odham137
Word order in Klamath167
Word order and topicality in Nez Perce193
Verb-subject order in Polish209
The pragmatics of word order variation in Chamorro narrative text243
Word order and temporal sequencing265
Word order and discourse type: an Austronesian example279
On interpreting text-distributional correlations: some methodological issues305


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