Some problems with the concept of basic word order  

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Brody, Jill

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Language Sciences vol. 22 no. 5 (1984), page 711-736.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LING/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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A recent paper by G. K. Pullum (1981) discusses languages where object precedes subject in basic word order sentences and includes a catalogue of languages which exhibit this order. One language which appears in that catalogue, Tojolabal (Mayan), is discussed in terms of the notion of basic word order (BWO). Two assumptions which have generally been made regarding BWO are critically investigated: (1) that all languages have a single BWO, and (2) that BWO is a uniform phenomenon across all languages. It is shown that while all six logically possible orders of S, V, and 0 occur in grammatical sentences in Tojolabal, no single order meets all the criteria generally offered in the literature for basic word order: VOS order sentences meet most criteria, but are extremely rare in discourse and are difficult for speakers to process and comprehend when presented in isolation; SVO order sentences are the most frequent in discourse but are pragmatically highlighted. Examination of sentences in context reveals the fact that discourse factors account for the various orderings found. It is concluded that BWO sentences have different functions in different languages and that therefore the notion of BWO is not uniform across all languages.

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