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Publication details [#9428]

Thompson, Sandra A. 1978. Modern English from a typological point of view: Some implications of the function of word order. Linguistische Berichte 54 : 19–35.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language typology | word order

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

According to a language typology based on word order there are two large groups of languages: those in which word order functions pragmatically and those in which it functions grammatically, and some of the consequences of this fact are examined.