Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Is basic word order universal? 15
5. Basic word order in two “free word order” languages 63
6. The privilege of primacy 83
7. Information distribution in Ojibwa 117
8. Nonidentifiable information and pragmatic order rules in ‘O’odham 137
9. Word order in Klamath 167
10. Word order and topicality in Nez Perce 193
11. Verb-subject order in Polish 209
12. The pragmatics of word order variation in Chamorro narrative text 243
13. Word order and temporal sequencing 265
14. Word order and discourse type 279
15. On interpreting text-distributional correlations 305