Word Order Universals

Word Order Universals is a detailed account of word order universals and their role in theories of historical change. The starting point is the Greenberg data s

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, re

Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the pro

This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of differ