Subject-verb word order and the function of early position

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of abbreviations ix
5. Word order in discourse 1
6. What are discourse principles made of? 29
7. Agent position in the Sejarah Melayu 51
8. Preverbal nominals in Colville-Okanagan 85
9. Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order 105
10. Subject-verb word order and the function of early position 137
11. Focus position in SOV languages 163
12. Word order at the noun phrase level in Japanese 199
13. WH-clefs and left-dislocation in English conversation 247
14. Pragmatic relations and word order in Chinese 297
15. Left shifts in strongly VSO languages 331
16. The pragmatics of verb initial sentences in some ancient Indo-European languages 355
17. Morphological and prosodic forces shaping word order 387
18. The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish 425
19. Verb initial languages and information order 449
20. On the discourse function of possessor movement in Emai prose narratives 487
21. Focal attention, voice, and word order 517
22. Noun incorporation and object placement in discourse 555
23. Subject Index 581
24. Author Index 591