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OverviewThis 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 this domain. The papers in this volume bring together both theoretical and empirical perspectives on word order variability within a wide variety of South Asian languages. They contribute particularly to a fuller description and understanding of the phenomena. They examine the extent to which linear precedence relations (word order) are determined/constrained by lexical, discourse, or purely syntactic levels of organization; and to what extent they represent an independent system of organisation with its own language-particular constraints and relations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Miriam Butt (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany) , Tracy Holloway King (Indiana University, Bloomington) , Gillian Ramchand (University of Oxford)Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information Imprint: Centre for the Study of Language & Information Volume: 50 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.466kg ISBN: 9781881526490ISBN 10: 1881526496 Pages: 286 Publication Date: 01 June 1994 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMiriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |