A Structural Principle of Language and Its Implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2854787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W P Lehmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47 |
| Publication date | 1973-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/412102 |
| OpenAlex | W2045640076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 8 |
Sentence qualifier markers, like those indicating interrogation and negation, are placed before verbs in consistent VO languages, after verbs in consistent OV languages. This placement principle permits us to identify other sentence qualifiers, like potential, desiderative, and reflexive. It also provides means for distinguishing qualifier markers from congruence as well as deixis markers. Moreover, it has morphological and phonological implications, leading to so-called agglutinative structure. Besides contributing to our understanding of linguistic structure, this principle enables us to clarify some problems in the historical development of languages
Linguistics · Sociology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
The Verb-Object Bonding Principle and the Pronominal System
Questions in Natural and Artificial Languages
Phrasal discontinuity in Polish
Die Entstehung des periphrastischen Perfekts mit haben und sein im Deutschen – eine längst beantwortete Frage
On the Six-Way Word Order Typology
Typology and universals
M. Bowerman, Early syntactic development
El principio de consistencia universal en el habla de los niños bilingües peruanos
The Greenbergian Word Order Correlations
Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar
Dependency-length minimization and its limits
From cumulative to separative exponence in inflection
Research on Language Universals
Der Beitrag der keltiberischen Inschrift von Botorrita zur Rekonstruktion der protokeltischen Syntax
Serialisation, Dependency and the Syntax of Possessives in Moru
SVO languages and the OV
On universal 22
Consistency, markedness and language change
The comparative method as applied to the syntactic component of language
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean
VOS Languages
Word Order
Dependency distance
Discourse and social interaction
Die Negation Im Uralischen Ii.
Element order in Old English and Old High German translations
Noun classes
Phonotactics
Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past
Drift, Slope, and Slant
Typometrics
Tipología sintáctica y expresión de la posesión sustantival en los textos luso-hispanorrománicos del siglo VIII
Basic word order typology revisited
Multicultural/Multilingual Electronically Mediated Communication
Universals of Language Today
Verb classifiers in East Asia
Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns
The Ordering Distribution of Main and Adverbial Clauses
Set theory as a meta‐language for natural languages
Parametric versus functional explanations of syntactic universals
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Complementary methods in Universal Grammar
Language Change and the Passive Voice
Ergativity and Word Order in Samoan Child Language
A Typologically Based Principle of Linearization
On Diachronic Sources and Synchronic Pattern
Preverbal Adverbs and Auxiliaries
The Universal Consistency Hypothesis and the Prediction of Word Order Acquisition Stages in the Speech of Bilingual Children
Spanish as a second language when L1 is Quechua
Is Unish Moving toward Becoming a More Analytic Language
Evolution of Word Order
Diachrony vs. Consistency
Word order universals
Logical, syntactic, and morphological notions of subject
On the causes of word order change
Typological and universal linguistics
Language structure and cultural identity
L’émergence d’une catégorie morphosyntaxique
Head Movement and Adjacency
On the development of negation and related changes in middle dutch
Headedness and the Lexicon
Word Order in Sentence Processing
The effects of sentence length on dependency distance, dependency direction and the implications-Based on a parallel English-Chinese dependency treebank
Linear Asymmetries and the LCA
Aspectos Funcionais Da Ordem De Constituintes
Dislocated imperatives in the Indo-European prayer
Center-Embedding Relative Clauses in Coahuilteco
On contrasting the semantics of the modal auxiliaries of German and English
Noun-modifier order as a consequence of VSO order
Object-verb order and adjective-noun order
Attributive modification in South American indigenous languages
Why we need a gradient approach to word order
Comparing a nativist and emergentist approach to the initial stage of SLA
Cognition, universal grammar, and typological generalizations
Predicate negation and word-order change
Proto-Indo-European compounds in relation to other Proto-Indo-European syntactic patterns
Vergleichende Syntax der indogermanischen Sprachen
Contemporary Linguistics and Indo-European Studies
Principles of Phonology
The System of Sonants and Ablaut in Kartvelian Languages
Über den ursprung der voneinander abweichenden Strukturen der Munda- und Khmer-Nikobar-Sprachen
Proto-Indo-European Phonology
Converging Theories in Linguistics
| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,39 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2024 (53) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |