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TY - ENCYC
T1 - Word Order
AU - Rijkhoff, Jan
N1 - The final version of this article can be found in: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol. 25, 644–656. Oxford: Elsevier. Available in both print and online editions. Available online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868530311 Abstract The way constituents are ordered in a linguistic expression is determined by general principles and language specific rules. This article is mostly concerned with general ordering principles and the three main linguistic categories that are relevant for constituent order research: formal, functional and semantic categories. The general principles appear to be motivated by cognitive considerations, which are deemed to facilitate language processing and which can all be regarded as manifestations of iconicity: non-arbitrary relations between the form and the content of a linguistic expression. Three major iconic ordering principles are the principles of Domain Integrity, Scope, and Head Proximity.
PY - 2015/2/17
Y1 - 2015/2/17
N2 - The way constituents are ordered in a linguistic expression is determined by general principles and language specific rules. This article is mostly concerned with general ordering principles and the three main linguistic categories that are relevant for constituent order research: formal, functional and semantic categories. The general principles appear to be motivated by cognitive considerations, which are deemed to facilitate language processing and which can all be regarded as manifestations of iconicity: non-arbitrary relations between the form and the content of a linguistic expression. Three major iconic ordering principles are the principles of Domain Integrity, Scope, and Head Proximity.
AB - The way constituents are ordered in a linguistic expression is determined by general principles and language specific rules. This article is mostly concerned with general ordering principles and the three main linguistic categories that are relevant for constituent order research: formal, functional and semantic categories. The general principles appear to be motivated by cognitive considerations, which are deemed to facilitate language processing and which can all be regarded as manifestations of iconicity: non-arbitrary relations between the form and the content of a linguistic expression. Three major iconic ordering principles are the principles of Domain Integrity, Scope, and Head Proximity.
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.53031-1
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.53031-1
M3 - Encyclopedia entry
SN - 978-0-08-097087-5
VL - 25
T3 - International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
SP - 644
EP - 656
BT - International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
A2 - Wright, James
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford UK
ER -