Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: I propose that, within local domains corresponding to extended projections, typologically possible informationneutral word orders are limited to the stack-sortable (231-avoiding) permutations of a universal headcomplement-specifier linear order.This proposal explains and unifies some well-known but previously unrelated word order universals, while successfully generating phenomena that challenge traditional approaches.Applications include Cinque's revision of Greenberg's Universal 20, the Final-Over-Final Condition, a modified Head Movement Constraint allowing attested Long Head Movement, English Affix Hopping, Germanic cross-serial subject-verb dependencies, and Icelandic Stylistic Fronting.Extending the system to multiple extended projections requires stack-sorting in cycles, expanding the set of allowed orders.
Source: Nordlyd
DOI: 10.7557/12.7978
Author: David P. Medeiros
Institution: University of Arizona
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405946691