Word Order Variation : : Semitic, Turkic and Indo-European Languages in Contact /

Word Order Variation : : Semitic, Turkic and Indo-European Languages in Contact / / ed. by Hiwa Asadpour, Thomas Jügel.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Asadpour, Hiwa,
Birnstiel, Daniel,
Bulut, Christiane,
Herin, Bruno,
Jügel, Thomas,
Korn, Agnes,
Lemskaya, Valeriya,
Molin, Dorota,
Neocleous, Nicolaos,
Noorlander, Paul M.,
Payne, Doris L.,
Wasow, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Asadpour, Hiwa,
Jügel, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 269 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Factors influencing word ordering
  • Proximal to distal: Information flow and order in Maa
  • Word order variation in Middle Iranic: Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, and Sogdian
  • Word order in Mukri Kurdish – the case of incorporated Targets
  • Targets and other postverbal arguments in Southern Balochi: A multidimensional cline
  • Word order in contact and the expression of Target in Northern Domari
  • The evolution of VO and OV alternation in Romeyka
  • Word order in Iran-Turkic
  • Word order variation in Chulym Turkic of Siberia
  • Copulas and Target phrase positioning in the Arabic dialects of Kurdistan
  • Word order typology in North-Eastern Neo- Aramaic
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects

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