| Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages Contributor(s): Butt, Miriam (Editor), King, Tracy Holloway (Editor), Ramchand, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 188152650X ISBN-13: 9781881526506 Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Dewey: 491.1 |
| LCCN: 94028628 |
| Series: Lecture Notes |
| Physical Information: 286 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Butt, Miriam: - Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.King, Tracy Holloway: - Tracy Holloway King is principal scientist in Adobe's Sensei and Search organization, focusing on natural language processing. |