Discourse-Governed Word Order and Word Order Typology

Dryer, Matthew S.

doi:10.1075/bjl.4.05dry

Article published In: Universals of Language
Edited by Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4] 1989
► pp. 69–90

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Discourse-Governed Word Order and Word Order Typology

Matthew S. Dryer | State University of New York at Buffalo

Published online: 1 January 1989

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.4.05dry

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