On describing word order
One aspect that is always discussed in language descriptions, no matter how short they may be, is word order. Beginning with Greenberg 1963, it has been common to talk about word order using expressions such as "X is an SOV language", where "S" represents "subject", "0" represents "object", and "V" represents "verb". Statements such as this are based on an assumption of comparability, an assumption that all languages manifest the categories represented by "S", "0", and "V" (among others), and that word order in all languages can be described (and compared) using these categories.
| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla, Dory Poa |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157548 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 13.07.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Wortstellung |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/describingwo.pdf ; (in:) Catching Language: The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing, ed. by Felix Ameka, Alan Dench, & Nicholas Evans. - Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006, S. 269-295 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 228846587 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
