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Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Doris L. Payne
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative
Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
Language: en
Pages: 657
Authors: Giuliano Bernini
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe.
Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Rosanna Sornicola
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-21 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this the
Defining Pragmatics
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Mira Ariel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Research surveys in Linguistics In large domains of theoretical and empirical linguistics, scholarly communication needs are directly comparable to those in ana
Word Order in Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 606
Authors: Pamela Downing
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated