Word Order in Discourse

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 as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556196369
• ISBN13: 9781556196362
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 605 Pages