The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity

by Mamoru Saito

This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110178222
• ISBN13: 9783110178227
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary