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The Relevance of the principle of Relevance for Word Order Variation in Complex Referring Expressions in Mandarin Chinese

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Chen L., Ming T., Jiang X.
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
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2016
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vol. 11
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issue 1
77-104
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Word order variation in Mandarin Chinese results in two constructions consisting of a noun phrase (NP), a cluster of a demonstrative and a classifier (DM), and a relative clause (RC): the OMN with the RC+DM+NP order and the IMN with DM+RC+NP order. This study used corpus data to show correlational patterns of constructional choices. Specifically, OMN is associated with new and inanimate NPs serving the grammatical role of object in the relative clause that serves the discourse function of identification. By contrast, for IMN, the head NP tends to carry given information, tends to be an animate entity, tends to serve the grammatical role of subject in the relative clause, and tends to have an RC that serves the discourse function of characterization. We suggest that the usage patterns can be interpreted in terms of the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance (Sperber and Wilson 1995).
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Aspects of Indo-European historical syntax in a typological perspective

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Gvozdanović J.
Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
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2016
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vol. 77
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issue 4
416-434
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This paper reexamines the core issues of the Indo-European syntax in a typological perspective including the interface of syntax, morphology and pragmatics (and in some instances also prosody). Word order is shown to have been significantly influenced by pragmatic functions even in allegedly prototypical verb-final systems in Anatolian, Indo-Aryan, Germanic and Romance. The paper also discusses the influence of verb valency involving clitic objects on attracting the verb to the initial position in Hellenistic Greek and Old Irish. Another major topic is the development of aspect systems that also had syntactic and pragmatic consequences. The paper discusses the main lines of this development including valency changes in a number of European language groups, whereas Indo-Aryan and Armenian (and to a limited extent also Germanic) primarily introduced other valency-changing categories, particularly causatives. The paper shows that the original typological properties are relatively resistant to change, but areal contacts can play a mediating role as illustrated by Dravidian and Uralic.
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