Basic word order in two “free word order” languages

Hale, Kenneth L.

doi:10.1075/tsl.22.03hal

In:Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Edited by Doris L. Payne
[Typological Studies in Language 22] 1992
► pp. 63–82

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Basic word order in two “free word order” languages

Kenneth L. Hale

Published online: 1 July 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.22.03hal

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