Timeline for Free Word Order Languages: How Much Freedom?
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| Oct 10, 2022 at 2:02 | answer | added | johnbasil | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 24, 2014 at 17:37 | answer | added | Masoud Komeily | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 24, 2014 at 10:23 | answer | added | Dariya | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 23, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | user3503 | @Hubert Schölnast, "Brot esse ich" is completely acceptable. It's marked and will occur restricted to certain contexts, but it is certainly not ungrammatical. Neither is "Bread I eat" (English) incorrect, it's topicalization. Also, German is typically analyzed as an SOV language by syntacticians. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 11:12 | comment | added | virmaior | Japanese is much looser on word order than German. Who is giving you these descriptions? | |
| May 23, 2014 at 10:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/469785161803255808 | ||
| May 23, 2014 at 8:18 | comment | added | Hubert Schölnast | I am a german native speaker. Word order is NOT free in German. If you want to say "I eat bread" in German, there is only one correct word order (same as in english): "Ich esse Brot". You can't say "Brot ich esse" or "Esse Brot ich". Those variations are as wrong as "Bread I eat" or "Eat bread I" in english. This is because german and english are both SVO-languages (subject, verb, object must appear in the order as listed here). | |
| May 23, 2014 at 6:58 | answer | added | Dominik Lukes | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 22, 2014 at 20:19 | comment | added | jlawler | Turkish is a textbook standard agglutinative SOV language; there are certainly some free word order phenomena, as there are in any language, but it's very far from a "free word order" language. | |
| May 22, 2014 at 15:23 | comment | added | TKR | "Free word order" is a somewhat misleading term: in such languages, word order tends to be determined by discourse pragmatics and information structure rather than syntax. A better term is "discourse-configurational" language. I don't know of any attempts to quantify this, but it's certainly not a binary phenomenon; even English has some "freedom" of this type, while on the other hand even very "free" languages (such as Ancient Greek) often have some syntagms whose internal order is fixed. It's a spectrum. | |
| May 22, 2014 at 15:12 | history | edited | prash♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 22, 2014 at 14:28 | history | asked | Masoud Komeily | CC BY-SA 3.0 |