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1 online resource (366 pages). |
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Research Surveys in Linguistics
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Research surveys in linguistics.
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Cover; Word Order; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in glosses; 1: Word order: setting the scene; 2: The Linguistic-Typological approach: Empirical validity and explanation; 2.1 Cross-linguistic variation and language universals; 2.2 Basic word order; 2.2.1 Some basic word-order patterns; 2.3 Early LT word-order research; 2.3.1 Greenberg's seminal work and other 'derivative' works; 2.3.2 Bringing word-order inconsistencies to order; 2.3.3 Distribution of the six basic clausal word orders; 2.3.4 SV-VS typology. |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Word order: setting the scene -- 2. Linguistic-Typological approach: empirical validity and explanation -- 2.1. Cross-linguistic variation and language universals -- 2.2. Basic word order -- 2.2.1. Some basic word-order patterns -- 2.3. Early LT word-order research -- 2.3.1. Greenberg's seminal work and other ̀derivative' works -- 2.3.2. Bringing word-order inconsistencies to order -- 2.3.3. Distribution of the six basic clausal word orders -- 2.3.4. SV-VS typology -- 2.4. OV-VO typology and Branching Direction Theory -- 2.4.1. Evidence for the OV-VO typology -- 2.4.2. (near) demise of Head-Dependent Theory -- 2.4.3. Branching Direction Theory -- 2.4.4. Residual issues in BDT -- 2.4.5. Further thoughts on BDT -- 2.5. From word order to morpheme order: suffixes over prefixes -- 2.5.1. processing approach to the suffixing preference -- 2.5.2. diachronic approach to the suffixing preference -- 2.5.3. Evaluating the two approaches to the suffixing preference -- 2.5.4. Ordering of multiple affixes -- 2.6. What to do with exceptions: areal (word-order) typology -- 2.6.1. Areal distribution of the six clausal word orders -- 2.6.2. Areal distribution of OV and VO -- 2.6.3. Areal distribution of OV/VO and NPo/PrN -- 2.6.4. Areal distribution of OV/VO and Re1N/NRel -- 2.7. Concluding remarks -- 3. Entr'acte: historical and conceptual background of Generative Grammar -- 3.1. Historical and conceptual background: Plato's problem -- 3.1.1. From descriptive adequacy to explanatory adequacy -- 3.1.2. Reducing individual rules to general principles -- 3.1.3. Universal principles and the setting of parametric values -- 3.2. Beyond explanatory adequacy: optimal language design -- 3.2.1. three pillars of the minimalist position -- 3.2.2. More on virtual conceptual necessity -- 3.2.3. Symmetry in Case assignment/checking -- 3.2.4. Elimination of descriptive technology -- 3.2.5. Economy: moving features vs moving categories -- 3.2.6. Move or Merge: which is more economical-- 3.3. fate of LF and PF: dynamic models of derivation -- 3.3.1. Derivation by phase -- 3.3.2. Multiple Spell-Out and other derivational models -- 3.3.3. Interface/bare output conditions and linear order -- 4. generative approach: stipulation or deduction -- 4.1. role and status of linear order in GG -- 4.1.1. Pre-Minimalist GG and linear order -- 4.1.2. Minimalist Program and linear order -- 4.2. Linear order: stipulation vs deduction -- 4.2.1. Linear order in early GG -- 4.2.2. Linear order rescued but stipulated -- 4.2.2.1. Deriving linear order from modules of grammar -- 4.2.2.2. Deriving linear order variation from general principles -- 4.2.2.3. Rethinking stipulation -- 4.3. Meeting stipulation head-on: Linear Correspondence Axiom -- 4.3.1. Primacy of linear order -- 4.3.2. Universal linear order: Specifier-Head-Complement -- 4.3.3. LCA and the demise of X'-Theory() -- 4.3.4. Why precedenceWhy not subsequence-- 4.3.5. LCA: summing up -- 4.4. LCA and cross-linguistic variation in linear order -- 4.5. Linear order in MP: whither the LCA-- 4.5.1. Minimalist solutions to the conceptual problems with the LCA -- 4.5.2. Further minimalist treatment of the LCA -- 4.5.2.1. Making c-command work (in a messy kind of way) -- 4.5.2.2. Rethinking c-command for the LCA within MP -- 4.5.2.3. Deriving or replacing c-command (but at what cost) -- 4.5.2.4. Head Parameter: coming full circle -- 4.6. Concluding remarks -- 5. Optimality-Theoretic approach: violable constraints and constraint ranking -- 5.1. emergence of OT: conceptual crisis in phonology -- 5.2. Basic architecture of OT -- 5.2.1. Harmonic bounding -- 5.2.2. emergence of the unmarked -- 5.2.3. Factorial typology: permutation of constraint rankings -- 5.3. OT extension to syntax -- 5.3.1. Theoretical implications of OT syntax -- 5.3.2. Typological implications of OT syntax -- 5.4. OT and basic word order -- 5.4.1. Basic word order as TETU: minimal constraint re-ranking -- 5.4.2. Head directionality and head position -- 5.4.2.1. Three word-order inputs: SOV, SVO and VOS -- 5.4.2.2. Mixed head directionality: VSO and non-uniform SOV -- 5.4.2.3. Factorial word-order typology: what to exclude-- 5.4.2.3.1. Reverse-German word order -- 5.4.2.3.2. Reverse-Tzotzil word order -- 5.4.2.3.3. No variants of VSO -- 5.4.2.3.4. No uniform VOS -- 5.4.2.3.5. Object-initial word orders: OVS and OSV -- 5.4.2.4. Whither from νPMoving ν and/or Subj into IP/TP -- 5.4.2.4.1. TP in VOS and VSO -- 5.4.2.4.2. TP in uniform SVO -- 5.4.2.5. Directionality of T in German SOV: head-final or head-initial-- 5.4.2.6. From clause to phrase: Genitive-N or N-Genitive order -- 5.4.2.6.1. NG order in VSO and VOS -- 5.4.2.6.2. GN order in uniform SOV -- 5.4.2.6.3. NG or GN order in uniform SVO -- 5.4.2.6.4. NG order in non-uniform SOV -- 5.4.3. LCA meets OT and turns s̀oft' -- 5.5. Concluding remarks -- 6. performance-based approach: efficiency in processing (and production) -- 6.1. Early Immediate Constituent Theory -- 6.1.1. Basic assumptions of EIC Theory -- 6.1.2. Principle of Early Immediate Constituents -- 6.1.3. EIC Theory and basic word order at the clausal level -- 6.1.4. Testing further PEIC predictions -- 6.1.5. Left-right asymmetry in word order -- 6.1.6. EIC Theory vs BDT: an evaluation -- 6.2. speaker and other relevant factors -- 6.2.1. myth of the altruistic speaker -- 6.2.2. Structural complexity vs information status -- 6.2.3. Semantic dependency, lexical bias and valency -- 6.2.3.1. Semantic dependency -- 6.2.3.2. Lexical bias: frequency of use -- 6.2.3.3. Valency -- 6.3. Structural responses to efficiency and complexity -- 6.3.1. Processing principles and processing domains -- 6.3.2. Word orders and correlations in Hawkins's revised theory -- 6.3.2.1. distribution of adpositions in OV and VO languages -- 6.3.2.2. NRel/Re1N in VO and OV languages: an asymmetry in syntax -- 6.3.2.3. Preponderance of subject-before-object ordering -- 6.3.2.4. VO and OV order: a syntactic symmetry -- 6.3.3. Residual issues -- 6.4. Dependency Locality Theory: integration and storage -- 6.4.1. Theoretical assumptions of DLT -- 6.4.2. Complements vs adjuncts: implications for word order -- 6.4.3. SVO vs OVS: differential storage load-- 6.4.4. DLT as a production model (as well) -- 6.5. Concluding remarks -- 7. Envoi: whither word-order research. |
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2.4 OV-VO typology and Branching Direction Theory2.4.1 Evidence for the OV-VO typology; 2.4.2 The (near) demise of Head-Dependent Theory; 2.4.3 Branching Direction Theory; 2.4.4 Residual issues in BDT; 2.4.5 Further thoughts on BDT; 2.5 From word order to morpheme order: suffixes over prefixes; 2.5.1 The processing approach to the suffixing preference; 2.5.2 The diachronic approach to the suffixing preference; 2.5.3 Evaluating the two approaches to the suffixing preference; 2.5.4 Ordering of multiple affixes; 2.6 What to do with exceptions: areal (word-order) typology. |
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2.6.1 Areal distribution of the six clausal word orders2.6.2 Areal distribution of OV and VO; 2.6.3 Areal distribution of OV/VO and NPo/PrN; 2.6.4 Areal distribution of OV/VO and RelN/NRel; 2.7 Concluding remarks; 3: Entr'acte: historical and conceptual background of Generative Grammar; 3.1 Historical and conceptual background: Plato's problem; 3.1.1 From descriptive adequacy to explanatory adequacy; 3.1.2 Reducing individual rules to general principles; 3.1.3 Universal principles and the setting of parametric values; 3.2 Beyond explanatory adequacy: optimal language design. |
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3.2.1 The three pillars of the minimalist position3.2.2 More on virtual conceptual necessity; 3.2.3 Symmetry in Case assignment/checking; 3.2.4 Elimination of descriptive technology; 3.2.5 Economy: moving features vs moving categories; 3.2.6 Move or Merge: which is more economical?; 3.3 The fate of LF and PF: dynamic models of derivation; 3.3.1 Derivation by phase; 3.3.2 Multiple Spell-Out and other derivational models; 3.3.3 Interface/bare output conditions and linear order; 4: The generative approach: stipulation or deduction; 4.1 The role and status of linear order in GG. |
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4.1.1 Pre-Minimalist GG and linear order4.1.2 Minimalist Program and linear order; 4.2 Linear order: stipulation vs deduction; 4.2.1 Linear order in early GG; 4.2.2 Linear order rescued but stipulated; 4.2.2.1 Deriving linear order from modules of grammar; 4.2.2.2 Deriving linear order variation from general principles; 4.2.2.3 Rethinking stipulation; 4.3 Meeting stipulation head-on: Linear Correspondence Axiom; 4.3.1 Primacy of linear order; 4.3.2 Universal linear order: Specifier-Head-Complement; 4.3.3 LCA and the demise of X-́Theory ; 4.3.4 Why precedence? Why not subsequence? |
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4.3.5 LCA: summing up. |
| Summary |
A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Song, Jae Jung. Word Order. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9780521872140 |
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9781139376716 |
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1139376713 |
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9781139379571 (electronic book) |
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1139379577 (electronic book) |
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9780521872140 |
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0521872146 |
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9780521693127 |
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0521693128 |
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9786613640826 |
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