The Pragmatics of Word Order
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The Pragmatics of Word Order

Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages

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The Pragmatics of Word Order

Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Chapter One. Introduction
  4. 1.1. Genetic and typological affiliations
  5. 1.2. Demography and ethnography
  6. 1.3. Previous linguistic work on Peba-Yaguan
  7. 1.4. Data for the current study
  8. Chapter Two. Constituent Order and Order Correlations
  9. 2.1. Observations of constituent order co-occurrences
  10. 2.2. The verb initial norm (VIN)
  11. 2.3. Selected theoretical approaches accounting for word order correspondences
  12. 2.4. Identification of basic constituent order
  13. 2.5. Towards an adequate constituent order typology
  14. Chapter Three. Clausal Phenomena
  15. 3.1. Major structural clause types
  16. 3.2. Impersonals and functionally related constructions
  17. 3.3. Auxiliaries
  18. 3.4. Second position clitics
  19. 3.5. Causation and desideration
  20. 3.6. Parataxis
  21. 3.7. Negatives and modals
  22. 3.8. Questions
  23. 3.9. Comparatives and equatives
  24. 3.10. Coordination and alternative relations
  25. 3.11. Complex sentences
  26. 3.12. Summary
  27. Chapter Four. Noun and Postpositional Phrase Phenomena
  28. 4.1. Bound modifying roots
  29. 4.2. Determination of head versus modifier within noun phrases
  30. 4.3. Order of head noun and descriptive modifier in text
  31. 4.4. Complex modifying phrases
  32. 4.5. Genitives
  33. 4.6. Postpositional phrases
  34. 4.7. Summary
  35. Chapter Five. Noun Classification and Nominalization
  36. 5.1. Derivational uses of classifiers
  37. 5.2. Inflectional uses of classifiers
  38. 5.3. Anaphora and classifiers
  39. 5.4. Theoretical status of Yagua classifiers
  40. Chapter Six. The Verb Phrase and Related Issues
  41. 6.1. Verbal nexus
  42. 6.2. Adverbs
  43. 6.3. Subject - object asymmetries: Evidence for a verb phrase containing the object?
  44. 6.4. Incorporation
  45. 6.5. An overview of verbal morphology
  46. 6.6. The instrumental/comitative -ta
  47. 6.7. Morphological causatives with -tániy
  48. 6.8. Summary
  49. Chapter Seven. Pragmatic Factors Motivating Order Variation
  50. 7.1. General pragmatic structure of Yagua clauses
  51. 7.2. The pragmatically marked nucleus
  52. 7.3. Function of the PM’ component
  53. 7.4. Functions of the PM component
  54. 7.5. Summary of pragmatically marked types
  55. 7.6. Frequency distribution of syntactic constituent orders
  56. 7.7. Relative order of direct objects and obliques
  57. 7.8. Summary
  58. Chapter Eight. Constituent Order in Yagua: Conclusions and Implications
  59. 8.1. Arguments in favor of SVO as basic
  60. 8.2. Arguments against SVO as basic
  61. 8.3. Summary of typological traits
  62. 8.4. Implications for head-dependent ordering principles and Hawkins’ Universals
  63. 8.5. Yagua as a head marking language
  64. Appendix 1: Lagarto (Alligator) Text
  65. Appendix 2: Phonology
  66. Notes
  67. References
  68. Index