Remarks on Grammatical Weight.

Wasow, Thomas

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ERIC Number: EJ544596

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Publication Date: 1997

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Remarks on Grammatical Weight.

Wasow, Thomas

Language Variation and Change, v9 n1 p81-105 1997

Discusses "end-weight," long, complex phrases that tend to come at the end of clauses. Corpus data on heavy noun phrase shift, the dative alternation, and particle movement indicate that there are several structural measures of weight highly correlated with constituent ordering. (38 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Variation, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Phrase Structure, Sentence Structure, Statistical Analysis, Verbs

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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