Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Conference Overview
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 6, 2006, 18:28 |
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Carsten wrote:
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Has this something to do with (anti-)dative movement and
other such valency increasing/decreasing actions, by any
chance? If not, what is "linear syntactical movement"?
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No, he was using HPSG. He was using the idea of linearization
rules, and pointed to three cross-linguistics tendencies:
(1) Topic precedes focus.
(2a) Heavy constituents appear sentence-finally.
(2b) Light elements appear adjacent to the head.
(3) Agent precedes experience which preceedes patient/theme.
I'll forward your message to Doug; perhaps he can respond in
full.
-David
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