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Anderson, Paul Kent. 1980. Typological and functional aspects of word order in Asoka. General Linguistics 20 (1) : 1–22.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cohesion | constituent weight | focus | grammatical function | modality | sentence type | word order
Language as a subject
Asoka

Annotation

Word order in Asoka is said to express modalities, differences between clause types, basic syntactic functions, thematic ordering, focus, the weight of constituents and iconic cohesion.