For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe.

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this the

Research surveys in Linguistics In large domains of theoretical and empirical linguistics, scholarly communication needs are directly comparable to those in ana

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated