Loading view.
Structuring Itelmen Word Order
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonWord order in Itelmen (itl, Chukotko-Kamchatkan) is quite flexible and has not been previously studied in any depth. This talk draws on a small text corpus to investigate the role of Information Structure in conditioning the distribution of object-verb and verb-object (OV,VO) word orders. Although speakers in elicitation contexts generally assent to both orders and […]