Word Order Variation
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Word Order Variation

Semitic, Turkic and Indo-European Languages in Contact

  1. 277 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Word Order Variation

Semitic, Turkic and Indo-European Languages in Contact

About this book

In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, 'Targets' (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged 'basic word order'.

Investigating empirical material, the present volume examines the idea of its contact-induced origin by combining various languages from inside and outside this contact area: the Greek variety Romeyka; Indic Domari; Iranic Balochi, Kurdish, Middle Persian, Parthian, Bactrian and Sogdian; Nilotic Maa; Semitic Arabic and Aramaic; Siberian and Iran-Turkic. The contributors investigate word order variation of transitive, ditransitive, and copula structures as well as intransitives with Targets. Their analyses highlight the relevance of grammatical, discourse-pragmatic, and cognitive principles. The volume highlights the importance of Target structures for linguistic theory by offering new perspectives and will be of interest to typologists and linguists interested in word order variation and information structure.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. Factors influencing word ordering
  4. Proximal to distal: Information flow and order in Maa
  5. Word order variation in Middle Iranic: Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, and Sogdian
  6. Word order in Mukri Kurdish – the case of incorporated Targets
  7. Targets and other postverbal arguments in Southern Balochi: A multidimensional cline
  8. Word order in contact and the expression of Target in Northern Domari
  9. The evolution of VO and OV alternation in Romeyka
  10. Word order in Iran-Turkic
  11. Word order variation in Chulym Turkic of Siberia
  12. Copulas and Target phrase positioning in the Arabic dialects of Kurdistan
  13. Word order typology in North-Eastern Neo- Aramaic
  14. Index of Authors
  15. Index of Languages
  16. Index of Subjects