This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering

This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from se

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is

The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in th