Word Order in Discourse
Editors
| University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
| University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
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.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of abbreviations | p. ix
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Word order in discourse: By way of introductionPamela A. Downing | pp. 1–27
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What are discourse principles made of?Ron Cowan | pp. 29–49
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Agent position in the Sejarah MelayuSusanna Cumming | pp. 51–83
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Preverbal nominals in Colville-OkanaganMichael Darnell | pp. 85–104
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Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word orderMatthew S. Dryer | pp. 105–135
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Subject-verb word order and the function of early positionBruce B. Harold | pp. 137–161
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Focus position in SOV languagesSusan C. Herring and John C. Paolillo | pp. 163–198
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Word order at the noun phrase level in Japanese: quantifier constructions and discourse functionsAlan Hyun-Oak Kim | pp. 199–246
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WH-clefs and left-dislocation in English conversation: cases of topicalizationKyu-hyun Kim | pp. 247–296
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Pragmatic relations and word order in ChineseRandy J. LaPolla | pp. 297–329
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Left shifts in strongly VSO languagesRobert E. Longacre | pp. 331–354
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The pragmatics of verb initial sentences in some ancient Indo-European languagesSilvia Luraghi | pp. 355–386
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Morphological and prosodic forces shaping word orderMarianne Mithun | pp. 387–423
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The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken SpanishFrancisco Ocampo | pp. 425–447
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Verb initial languages and information orderDoris L. Payne | pp. 449–485
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On the discourse function of possessor movement in Emai prose narrativesRonald P. Schaefer | pp. 487–515
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Focal attention, voice, and word order: an experimental, cross-linguistic studyRussell S. Tomlin | pp. 517–554
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Noun incorporation and object placement in discourse: the case of GuaraníMaura Velázquez-Castillo | pp. 555–579
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Subject Index | pp. 581–589
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Author Index | pp. 591–605
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