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Word Order Rules

 
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This book presents an account of word order phenomena from the point of view of the word order rules posited in several models of grammar. As such it differs from most discussions of word order which are either purely typological in nature or couched in a single model of description. In examining the treatment of linearization suggested in quite different theoretical frameworks the book seeks to establish the range of factors that need to be invoked in the specification of order on a crosslinguistic basis. It simultaneously provides a fair idea of the different approaches to linearization currently in vogue and the variety of available analyses of the same word order facts. It is intended primarily as a reference book, though it may also serve as the basis for a course on word order, particularly since considerable attention is devoted to the nature of the relations in terms of which word order rules are framed, i.e. grammatical relations, thematic relations, constituency and dependency.
The book was originally written as a Ph.D. thesis at Monash University, Melbourne in 1983-4. I have made a number of structural changes for this published version, but the only major addition is the inclusion of



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