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Peer reviewedBirner, Betty; Mahootian, Shahrzad – Language Sciences, 1996
Demonstrates the similarities between English and Farsi with respect to discourse-functional constraints on inversion. It is argued that this phenomenon is significant because these two languages exhibit different canonical word order and thus expectations can be raised from some functional-syntactic universals. (15 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Nouns
