Topic, focus, and discourse structure
Ancient Greek Word Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20511568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dejan Matić (0000-0001-8190-0745, University of Cologne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 573-633 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.27.3.05mat |
| OpenAlex | W1999729947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
It is commonly assumed that word order in free word order languages is determined by a simple topic – focus dichotomy. Analysis of data from Ancient Greek, a language with an extreme word order flexibility, reveals that matters are more complex: the parameters of discourse structure and semantics interact with information packaging and are thus indirectly also responsible for word order variation. Furthermore, Ancient Greek displays a number of synonymous word order patterns, which points to the co-existence of pragmatic determinedness and free variation in this language. The strict one-to-one correspondence between word order and information structure, assumed for the languages labelled discourse configurational, thus turns out to be only one of the possible relationships between form and pragmatic content
Epistemology · Information Structure · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Word order · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |