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Autor/inn/en | Birner, Betty; Mahootian, Shahrzad |
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Titel | Functional Constraints on Inversion in English and Farsi. |
Quelle | In: Language Sciences, 18 (1996) 1-2, S.127-38 |
Beigaben | Tabellen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0388-0001 |
Schlagwörter | Contrastive Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; English; Nouns; Persian; Pragmatics; Sentence Structure; Syntax; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Word Order |
Abstract | Demonstrates the similarities between English and Farsi with respect to discourse-functional constraints on inversion. It is argued that this phenomenon is significant because these two languages exhibit different canonical word order and thus expectations can be raised from some functional-syntactic universals. (15 references) (Author/CK) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2004/1/01 |