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1	Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb more books like this by Keren Rice, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist Athapaskan languages are well known for their intricate morphology, in particular the complexity of their verbs. The significance of these languages for linguistic theory is widely acknowledged. In this book, Keren Rice offers a rich typological survey of morpheme ordering in Athapaskan verbs, with implications for both synchronic grammar and ... see all copies from $6.71! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Emergence and Development of Svo Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives more books like this by Brigitte L Bauer add to wishlist This book analyses-in terms of branching-the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents. Brigitte Bauer presents a ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.62! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Masked Inversion in French more books like this by Paul M. Postal add to wishlist In this important work of linguistic analysis, Paul M. Postal addresses a paradigm anomaly in French that has hitherto resisted explanation. A general restriction limiting the form of direct objects in complex infinitival constructions with main verbs like faire fails to hold with certain subordinate verbs, especially connaitre. Marshaling ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek more books like this by A M Devine, Laurence D Stephens add to wishlist The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory. This study applies some of these ideas to hyperbaton, offering an original new theory with broad applications for our understanding of Greek syntax. Students of epic will find a fresh ... see all copies from $21.00! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Word Order and Scrambling more books like this by Simin Karimi (Editor) add to wishlist Word Order and Scrambling introduces readers to recent research into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling. The contributions, from some of the leading authorities in the field, explore major issues including the factors responsible for word order variations, how the scrambled constructions are processed, and whether these variations are ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $37.10! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics more books like this by Stefan Thomas Gries add to wishlist This title presents an analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (particle movement) from a cognitive-functional and psycholinguistic perspective. Its main objective, however, is a methodological one, namely to demonstrate the superiority of corpus-based, multifactorial and probabilistic approaches towards ... see all copies from $45.52! new only from $121.45! \| SVS
7	The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages more books like this by Andrew Carnie (Editor), Eithne Guilfoyle (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of ... see all copies from $32.25! new only from $32.25! \| SVS
8	Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure more books like this by Kensei Sugayama (Editor), Richard Hudson (Editor) add to wishlist This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there ... see all copies from $23.92! new only from $48.95!
9	The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present more books like this by Aldo Scaglione add to wishlist "The Theory of German Word Order from the Renaissance to the Present "was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The uniquely systematic character of German word order and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.94! \| first editions
10	The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages more books like this by Ivan Shing Chung Kwong add to wishlist This work studies the word order of the "Gospel of Luke", and some of its prominent messages, with consideration of systemic functional linguistic theories. The first part of the work focuses on the relative positions of four constituents (subject, predicate, complement and circumstantial adjunct) of different types of Lukan clauses (independent, ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $40.00!
11	Greek Word Order more books like this by Kenneth J Dover add to wishlist The order of words in a Greek sentence is much freer and less predictable than in most European languages. The author explains and illustrates the principles which govern word order in Greek. He finds three: the tendency of certain words to take a constant position; certain types of logical relation between the sentence and its context; and the ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $23.49! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian more books like this by Tracy Holloway King add to wishlist This work examines word order. More accurately, it is the ordering of constituents that is discussed since prepositional phrases and most noun phrases form syntactic constituents and the encoding of topic and focus in Russian. As has long been observed, word order in Russian encodes specific discourse information: with neutral intonation, topics ... see all copies from $13.46! new only from $29.28!
13 view cover	The order of words in the ancient languages compared with that of the modern languages more books like this by Henri Weil, Aldo D. Scaglione add to wishlist see all copies from $19.95! new only from $210.74! \| first editions
14 view cover	Postverbal Behavior more books like this by CSLI Publications (Creator), Thomas Wasow add to wishlist Compared to many languages, English has relatively fixed word order, but the ordering among phrases following the verb exhibits a good deal of variation. This monograph explores factors that influence the choice among possible orders of postverbal elements, testing hypotheses using a combination of corpus studies and psycholinguistic experiments. ... see all copies from $27.97! new only from $27.97!
15 view cover	Incomplete Category Fronting: A Derivational Approach to Remnant Movement in German more books like this by Gereon Muller, Gereon Miller, Gereon Ma1/4ller add to wishlist This study investigates the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement ... see all copies from $100.78! new only from $100.78! \| SVS
16 view cover	Syntax of Imperatives in English and Geramic: Word Order Variation in the Minimalist Framework more books like this by Laura Rupp add to wishlist This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Programme. At a more general level, the book engages in current debate on one of the key issues in syntactic theory - the ... see all copies from $48.85! new only from $108.92!
17 view cover	Adverb Placement: A Case Study in Antisymmetric Syntax more books like this by Artemis Alexiadou add to wishlist see all copies from $86.92! new only from $122.00!
18 view cover	The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization more books like this by Susan M Powers (Editor), Cornelia Hamann (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. While observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be found in the literature, up until the recent past they were sparse and often buried in other issues. This volume fills a long ... see all copies from $193.34! new only from $215.93! \| SVS
19	The Discourse Function of Inversion in English more books like this by Betty J Birner add to wishlist see all copies from $146.24! new only from $146.24! \| SVS
20 view cover	Inventing the Sacred: Imposture, Inquisition, and the Boundaries of the Supernatural in Golden Age Spain more books like this by Walter Schweikert, Andrew W Keitt add to wishlist For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses established and new syntactic and statistical tests to ... see all copies from $154.99! new only from $154.99!
21 view cover	Stuctural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish more books like this by Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo add to wishlist Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo investigates a number of word order phenomenon in Spanish, concentrating on the language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement. He demonstrates that word order in Spanish is not regulated by licensing conditions related to the subject (ie Case, agreement, ... see all copies from $93.13! new only from $93.13!
22 view cover	The Language of Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts more books like this by Rutger J Allan (Editor), Michel Buijs (Editor) add to wishlist This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts. see all copies from $132.96! new only from $132.96!
23	Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages more books like this by Gillian Ramchand (Editor), Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia. These languages are interesting precisely because they exhibit such great flexibility in their word orders while not being completely non-configurational; and data from these languages have been the source of much recent research and controversy in ... see all copies from $20.98! new only from $20.98! \| first editions
24	Mimamsa, the Ancient Indian Science of Sentence Interpretation more books like this by G. V. Devasthali, V. N. Jha (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.82! new only from $15.82!
25 view cover	Phrase Structures in Competition: Variation and Change in Old English Word Order more books like this by Susan Pintzuk, Pintzuk Susan add to wishlist This book investigates variation and change in Old English word order, with special emphasis on the position of the verb. see all copies from $175.62! new only from $175.62!

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