Re: Lexical determination of word order
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2006, 20:35 |
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>I think that in this language word order will be determined by some feature
>of the lexical content of the sentence. Any idea what feature this might
>be?
>
>Pete
Here's a few ideas I can think of:
- The TAM of the verb (most likely tense or, more boringly,
imperativ<>declarativ<>interrogativ)
- The arguments' location on the Animacy Hierarchy (see the discussion on
"hierarchic alignment" a few weeks ago)
- Evidentiality
John Vertical
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