Word Order and ScramblingISBN: 978-0-631-23327-5
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410 pages
May 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction by Simin Karimi xiii
1 Topic and Focus Scope Positions in Navajo 1
Kenneth Hale, Eloise Jelinek, and MaryAnn Willie
2 Argument Scrambling, Operator Movement, and Topic Movement in
Hungarian 22
Katalin E. Kiss
3 Grammatical Relations in Tohono O’odham: an Instrumental
Perspective 44
Mizuki Miyashita, Richard Demers, and Delbert Ortiz
4 Bare Nominals: Non-Specific and Contrastive Readings under
Scrambling 67
Veneeta Dayal
5 On Object Positions, Specificity, and Scrambling in Persian
91
Simin Karimi
6 Scrambling, Subscrambling, and Case in Turkish 125
Jaklin Kornfilt
7 Does Russian Scrambling Exist? 156
John Frederick Bailyn
8 A-Movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality
177
Shigeru Miyagawa
9 Scrambling in Dutch: Optionality and Optimality 201
Helen de Hoop
10 Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement 217
Anoop Mahajan
11 Non-Canonical Word Order: Topic and Focus in Adult and Child
Tamil 238
Vaijayanthi Sarma
12 L2 Acquisition of Japanese: Knowledge and Use of Case
Particles in SOV and OSV Sentences 273
Noriko Iwasaki
13 Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies, Complexity, and
Constraints 301
Irina A. Sekerina
14 WH-Movement versus Scrambling: the Brain Makes a Difference
325
Angela D. Friederici, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Christian J.
Fiebach
References 345
Index 368