Karimi Word Order and Scrambling

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75825-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten, E-Book

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Word Order and Scrambling introduces readers to recentresearch into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling and is avaluable contribution to the fields of theoretical linguistics,psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics.
* * Introduces readers to recent research into the linguisticphenomenon called scrambling, or free word order.
* * Explores major issues including factors responsible for wordorder variations, how scrambled constructions are processed, andwhether variations are available in early child languagedevelopment and in second language acquisition.
* Discusses a number of typologically diverse languages includingHindi, Japanese, and Navajo.
* Provides enlightening information on different aspects of wordorder variation and the consequences for our understanding of thenature of human language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karimi, Simin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction by Simin Karimi xiii
1 Topic and Focus Scope Positions in Navajo 1
Kenneth Hale, Eloise Jelinek, and MaryAnn Willie
2 Argument Scrambling, Operator Movement, and Topic Movement inHungarian 22
Katalin E. Kiss
3 Grammatical Relations in Tohono O'odham: an InstrumentalPerspective 44
Mizuki Miyashita, Richard Demers, and Delbert Ortiz
4 Bare Nominals: Non-Specific and Contrastive Readings underScrambling 67
Veneeta Dayal
5 On Object Positions, Specificity, and Scrambling in Persian91
Simin Karimi
6 Scrambling, Subscrambling, and Case in Turkish 125
Jaklin Kornfilt
7 Does Russian Scrambling Exist? 156
John Frederick Bailyn
8 A-Movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality177
Shigeru Miyagawa
9 Scrambling in Dutch: Optionality and Optimality 201
Helen de Hoop
10 Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement 217
Anoop Mahajan
11 Non-Canonical Word Order: Topic and Focus in Adult and ChildTamil 238
Vaijayanthi Sarma
12 L2 Acquisition of Japanese: Knowledge and Use of CaseParticles in SOV and OSV Sentences 273
Noriko Iwasaki
13 Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies, Complexity, andConstraints 301
Irina A. Sekerina
14 WH-Movement versus Scrambling: the Brain Makes a Difference325
Angela D. Friederici, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Christian J.Fiebach
References 345
Index 368

Über Autor(innen)

Simin Karimi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is on the editorial board of the journal Linguistic Analysis and has published widely in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, and Lexicology.