Word Order

Informationen zum Autor Jae Jung Song is Associate Professor, Linguistics Programme in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Klappentext A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research. Zusammenfassung A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research, this comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks – linguistic typology, generative grammar, optimality theory and processing-based theories. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Word order: setting the scene; 2. The linguistic-typological approach: empirical validity and explanation; 3. Entr'acte: historical and conceptual background of generative grammar; 4. The generative approach: stipulation or deduction; 5. The optimality-theoretic approach: violable constraints and constraint ranking; 6. The performance-based approach: efficiency in processing (and production); 7. Envoi: whither word order research?

Product details

• Authors: Jae Jung Song, Jae Jung (University of Otago Song
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521872140
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87214-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Research Surveys in Linguistic; Research Surveys in Linguistics; Research Surveys in Linguistic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics