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Word Order in Old Catalan
This thesis describes the word order of El Llibre dels Fets del Rey en Jacme, a 13th century Catalan chronicle widely known as El Llibre dels Fets. By exploring the position of the verb, the subject and the information structure of the Old Catalan of this text, it is concluded that Old Catalan was …
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Word order and case in Kashmiri
"This dissertation explores the word order in Kashmiri, focussing mainly on the positions where subjects and objects are licensed. One important respect in which the grammar of Kashmiri language differs from all other Indo-Aryan languages is the appearance of the finite verb in the clause second …
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Word Order in the Older Germanic Dialects
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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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Word order and verb inflection in agrammatic sentence production
Contains fulltext : 90514.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Word order, NP movements, and opacity conditions in Persian
This study investigates word order and NP-movement phenomena in Persian within the framework of Government and Binding as developed in Chomsky (1981, 1986b) and subsequent work.
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Analysis of word-order universals using Bayesian phylogenetic inference
… determine whether the evolutions of a set of word-order traits in four language families are correlated or independent. In the first part of the thesis, the phylogenetic trees of the Indo-European and Bantu language families are reconstructed using several methods and the differences among the …
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Investigating word order processing using pupillometry and event-related potentials
… second language learners of English, as well as word order and case marking in German speaking adults and children. Pupillometry and ERP allowed us to test competing linguistic theories and use novel methodologies to investigate the processing of word order. In doing so we also aimed to establish …
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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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Word Order in Övdalian : A Study in Variation and Change.
… & Platzack (1995) who argue that a number of word order phenomena depend on two morphological parameters: subject-verb agreement and morphological case. Övdalian word order is also compared with the word order of the other Scandinavian languages and an underlying syntactic structure of …
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Prosodic and structural variability in free word order language discourse
… morphemes 'hii' and 'bhii', which attach to words that the listener is likely to identify as prominent (Luchkina, Puri, Jyothi, Cole 2015). In Hungarian and Hindi, speakers place the prominent word in the pre-verbal position in a sentence or phrase, which presents a designated location for …
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry
… Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, …
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Word order in Cicero's Letters to Atticus : a multivariate approach
… most striking features of Latin is its flexible word order. Subjects and objects and verbs can be jumbled, seemingly indiscriminately, and there are generally a number of relative or temporal or conditional clauses in the mix as well. Sometimes these sentences can become so long and unwieldy that …
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Word-order in Russian and English : a study in functional sentence perspective
… first, to collate a method for dealing with word-order and functional sentence perspective in Russian and English; second, to analyze the prevalent word-order patterns in Russian and to contrast them against their English equivalents.
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Word-order in Russian and English : a study in functional sentence perspective
… first, to collate a method for dealing with word-order and functional sentence perspective in Russian and English; second, to analyze the prevalent word-order patterns in Russian and to contrast them against their English equivalents.
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Word Order in Spoken German: Syntactic Right -Expansions as an Interactionally Constructed Phenomenon
Taking into account the characteristics of directionality and projection inherent to language unfolding incrementally in real time interaction, this study reveals that right-expansions emerge as a systematic syntactically structured resource in real-time interaction. Though they may appear as …
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Word order in ancient Greek: VSO, SVO, SOV, or all of the above?
… has a high degree of freedom in the placement of words/phrases within the sentence, so much so that there have been competing claims regarding the so-called 'basic' or 'unmarked' order of constituents. VSO, SVO, and SOV have all been claimed to be the 'basic' word order by various scholars, whose …
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Case, agreement and word order : issues in the syntax and acquisition of Taml
… The TP-external structure concerns the re-ordering of phrasal constituents, locally and long-distance. It is shown that Tamil is a configurational language which exhibits longdistance and local extraction to A-bar positions targeting the same sites as independent cletiing and topicalization …
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