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- Title
A Corpus Analysis of the Effects of Definiteness and Animacy on Word Order Variation.
- Authors
Asadpour, Hiwa
- Abstract
This article deals with the analysis of word order variation regarding subjects, direct objects, and non-direct object phrases called the "Target" in the corpus of languages of northwestern Iran, viz., Armenian, Mukri Kurdish, and Northeastern Kurdish (Indo-European), Jewish Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (Semitic), and Azeri Turkic (Turkic). The objective is to examine the effects of formal and semantic (in)definiteness in combination with animacy on Target word order variation to find out which one can be a triggering factor.
- Subjects
IRAN; WORD order (Grammar); CORPORA
- Publication
Languages, 2023, Vol 8, Issue 4, p279
- ISSN
2226-471X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/languages8040279