Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 269 p.)
Edition:
Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783110790368
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9783110790535
Series Statement:
Studia Typologica [STTYP] / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals 31
Content:
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
Note:
Issued also in print
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110790214
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print Word order variation Berlin : de Gruyter Mouton, 2022 ISBN 9783110790214
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110790211
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Semitische Sprachen
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Turksprachen
;
Indogermanische Sprachen
;
Sprachkontakt
;
Wortstellung
;
Sprachvariante
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110790368
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110790368
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110790368
Author information:
Jügel, Thomas
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