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.

Speech Acts and the First Amendment

Speech act theory, well known to scholars of rhetoric, communication, and language, underlies this emerging trend in judicial and legislative thinking. The idea that "words are deeds," first articulated in language philosophy by Wittgenstein and elaborated by J. L. Austin and John Searle, is being invoked by some members of the legal community to target objectionable speech.