Word Order in Discourse

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Pamela A. Downing

| University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Michael Noonan

| University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

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This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.

The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.

[Typological Studies in Language, 30] 1995. x, 595 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.30

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations	ix
Word order in discourse: By way of introduction Pamela A. Downing	1–27
What are discourse principles made of? Ron Cowan	29–49
Agent position in the Sejarah Melayu Susanna Cumming	51–83
Preverbal nominals in Colville-Okanagan Michael Darnell	85–104
Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order Matthew S. Dryer	105–135
Subject-verb word order and the function of early position Bruce B. Harold	137–161
Focus position in SOV languages Susan C. Herring and John C. Paolillo	163–198
Word order at the noun phrase level in Japanese: quantifier constructions and discourse functions Alan Hyun-Oak Kim	199–246
WH-clefs and left-dislocation in English conversation: cases of topicalization Kyu-hyun Kim	247–296
Pragmatic relations and word order in Chinese Randy J. LaPolla	297–329
Left shifts in strongly VSO languages Robert E. Longacre	331–354
The pragmatics of verb initial sentences in some ancient Indo-European languages Silvia Luraghi	355–386
Morphological and prosodic forces shaping word order Marianne Mithun	387–423
The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish Francisco Ocampo	425–447
Verb initial languages and information order Doris L. Payne	449–485
On the discourse function of possessor movement in Emai prose narratives Ronald P. Schaefer	487–515
Focal attention, voice, and word order: an experimental, cross-linguistic study Russell S. Tomlin	517–554
Noun incorporation and object placement in discourse: the case of Guaraní Maura Velázquez-Castillo	555–579
Subject Index	581–589
Author Index	591–605

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Syntax

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 94044088