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In:Studies in Syntactic Typology
Edited by Michael Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth
[Typological Studies in Language 17] 1988
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1988
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Table of contents

List of abbreviationsvii
Prefaceix
Language typology and linguistic explanation1
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I. Agreement
Agreement and the distribution of anaphora25
Finiteness and opacity: Evidence from the Balkans37
Conditions for verb-coded coordinations53
II. Word order
Investigating universals of sentence complexity77
Universals of negative position93
Accentuation typology, word order and theme-rheme structure125
Preverbal focusing and type XXIII languages147
III. Syntactic and pragmatic functions
Datives and allatives173
A typology of subjects193
Universals of topic-comment structure209
IV. Explaining universals
The pragmatics of word order: Predictability, importance and attention243
On the function of marked and unmarked terms285
Incorporation, parallelism, and focus303
On explaining some right-left asymmetries in syntactic and morphological universals321
The covariance of culture and grammar359
Author index379
Subject index385
Language index389
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