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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Word-order variation"”.
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Parameters and effects of word order variation
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1984.
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The Significance of Noun Phrase Word Order Variation in Kivunjo
This study is a description of the word order variation in the noun phrases of Kivunjo, a Bantu language classified under group E62b, according to Guthrie (1948). The study describes five aspects of the noun phrase which are: constituents that modify the noun, order of the constituents in the …
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Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation
… of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation in German-speaking preschoolers. A puzzle in the area of language acquisition concerns the production-comprehension asymmetry for non-canonical sentences like "Den Affen fängt die Kuh." (“The monkey, the cow chases.”), that is, …
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Aspects of Chinese syntax: Ergativity and phrase structure
… syntax such as the variable position of subject, word order variation, locative inversion, definiteness effects, quantification and scope effects of inverted subjects can be explained if it is recognized that Chinese has both unergative (accusative) and ergative-type structures.
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Motivaties voor volgordevariatie : een diachrone studie van werkwoordvolgorde in het Nederlands
… of the dissertation is an intriguing case of word order variation within the verbal phrase in modern Standard Dutch. In the subordinate clause, verbal phrases consisting of a perfect/passive auxiliary hebben (to have), zijn (to be) or worden (to become) and a past participles both allow the …
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Putting PPs into order - Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami
This thesis investigates PP-internal word-order variation in an endangered Uralic language, Lule Sami, which is indigenous to parts of Northern Norway and Sweden. The study focuses on the factors underlying prepositional occurrences in this predominantly postpositional language. It is mainly based …
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Word order and information structure in Romeyka: A syntax and semantics interface account of order in a minimalist system
In this dissertation, I investigate word order and information structure in the light of recent developments within the minimalist program. I specifically pursue a principled explanation of word order within the biolinguistic perspective. In that sense, I entertain the thesis that all properties of …
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Extraposition and optionality: an investigation of information packaging in Paarl-Kaaps
… where extraposition was (im-)possible. In other words, a three-way distinction is made between actual cases of extraposition, cases in which extraposition would still yield a grammatical expression, and cases in which extraposition would have resulted in ungrammaticality. Viewing the data in this …
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… framework to study the syntax and pragmatics of word order variation in the Andean Spanish of Bolivia and Ecuador. While Standard Spanish has basic order SVO, in Andean Spanish the object frequently appears in preverbal position, resulting in alternative orders (e.g. OVS). Previous studies have …
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Evidence from innovation: Reconstructing disharmonic headedness for Proto-Indo-European
… and Gothic. For each language, I categorize all word order variations seen in the auxiliary constructions, demonstrate that clauses ending with a verbal element (usually a participle) followed immediately by the auxiliary is by far the most common order attested, and show that in each of these …
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Discourse-Conditioned Wh-Placement in Natural Language
… and information structure, I approach this word order variation with a notion initially adopted in distinguishing the inherent interpretative difference between English which-complexes and other wh-nominals such as what—D(iscourse)-linking (Pesetsky, 1987). The unified explanation I will …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… the degree of discourse salience must be made in order to account for the distribution of Chinese NP forms in discourse. For example, the study shows that nei `that' encodes a uniquely identifiable referent and is used to increase referential salience, while a bare NP encodes a referent of neutral …