Language Typology: Cross-linguistic Studies in SyntaxIncludes data from and comments on the structure of several Australian languages, including Warlpiri and Dyirbal. |
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adjectives adpositions agent and patient allow Amharic antipassive appears basic word order bound pronouns chapter claim clitic co-ordination conjoined constituents constraint construction correlation cross-referencing deletion diachronic discussion distinction Dyirbal embedded English ergative languages examples explanation extraposed extraposition free word order function genitive girl Givón grammatical Greenberg guages Hawkins head Head-RC order hierarchy Hixkaryana indirect object instance intransitive involved Japanese Kalkatungu Koutsoudas language users Lehmann linguists main clause Mary loved morpheme morphological nominal non-restrictive noun phrase number of languages occur passive pattern position postnominal postposed postpositions precedes Predicate prenominal Prep preposed prepositions principle pronouns reduction relative clause relative marker relativized restrictive role sample self-embedding semantic sentence SOV languages speakers strategies structures subordinate clauses syntactic syntax Tagalog Takelma tion tive topic transitive verb typology universal unmarked Vennemann verb-initial ween woman word order type