Basic Word Order: Functional Principles (Croom Helm Linguistics Series) - Hardcover

Tomlin, Russell S.

 
9780709924999: Basic Word Order: Functional Principles (Croom Helm Linguistics Series)

Synopsis

'Basic Word Order' examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV and OVS). It provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization.

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