Abstract This study provides a synthesis of corpus-based and experimental investigations word-order preferences in German infinitival complementation. We carried out systematic analysis present-day corpora to establish frequency distributions different options: extraposition, intraposition, ‘third construction’. then examined, firstly, whether what extent corpus frequencies processing economy c...

This study focuses on the description of argument structure and word order in Saudi Sign language (SSL). The nature syntactic level grammar SSL is clarified. Since often considered most important part grammar, this details various options that are available for major constituents (Subject, Verb, Object) independent any connection to spoken Arabic syntax. In SSL, like other languages, arguments ...

One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or anchors into the syntactic structure of utterances due to their high frequency. Despite its potentially universal scope, this hypothesis has not yet been tested on typologically different languages and on populations o...