Word Order and Scrambling

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