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English as a VSO Language
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James D. McCawley
James D. McCawley
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1 June 1970
journal article
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JSTOR
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Language
Vol. 46
(2)
,
286
https://doi.org/10.2307/412279
Abstract
Evidence is presented that the superficial Subject-Verb-Object word order of English arises by a transformation from an underlying constituent order in which cl...
Keywords
WORD
ENGLISH
VERB
CONSTITUENT
SUPERFICIAL
VSO LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE EVIDENCE
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