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Publication details [#5549]

Kirkwood, Henry W. 1978. Options and constraints in the surface ordering of noun phrases in English and German. Journal of Pragmatics 2 (3) : 225–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

noun phrase | semantic case | word order

Language as a subject

English | German

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Annotation

An attempt is made to establish a basic 'systemic' ordering of noun phrases in English and German, in terms of the case functions expressed by noun phrases in different semantic sentence patterns (locational, existential-locative, and source-emergence statements).