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Publication details [#5510]

Kiefer, Ferenc. 1969. On the problem of word order. In Bierwisch, Manfred and Karl-Erich Heidolph, eds. Progress in linguistics: A collection of papers. Mouton. pp. 127–142.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

emphasis2 | topic vs. comment | word order

Language as a subject

Hungarian

Annotation

K. argues that even in languages with so-called free word order (e.g. Hungarian), word order is far from free, being determined by such factors as emphasis and the topic-comment articulation.