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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
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This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering
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This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universa
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An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book pr