This paper examines word order variation in Khoekhoe (short for Khoekhoegowab, also known as Nama/Damara), a Central Khoisan language spoken in Namibia and South Africa. Khoekhoe has been claimed repeatedly to have a clause-second position (Washburn 2001, den Besten 2002, Brugman 2009) and to have topological fields similar to German (Witzlack-Makarevich 2006). However, previous generative anal...

This paper reports on the results of a detailed empirical study of word order correlations, based on a sample of 625 languages. The primary result is a determination of exactly what pairs of elements correlate in order with the verb and object. Some pairs of elements that have been claimed to correlate in order with the verb and object do not in fact exhibit any correlation. I argue against the...

Background The topic Word order and FLT Approaches List and match Deep processing Our perspective and approach Two types of word order errors Phrasal verbs Adverb placement Summary References Towards a treatment of word order errors When to use deep processing – and when not to

In this paper we describe a method of acquiring word order fl'om corpora. Word order is defined as the order of modifiers, or the order of phrasal milts called 'bunsetsu' which depend on the stone modifiee. The method uses a model which automatically discovers what the tendency of the word order in Japanese is by using various kinds of information in and around the target bunsetsus. This model ...