Word Order Variation
In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, ‘Targets’ (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged ‘basic word order’.
Investigating empirical material, the present volume examines the idea of its contact-induced origin by combining various languages from inside and outside this cont...
In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, ‘Targets’ (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged ‘basic word order’.
Investigating empirical material, the present volume examines the idea of its contact-induced origin by combining various languages from inside and outside this cont...