Syntactic weight vs information structure and word order variation in Polish

Anna Siewierska

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This article presents an analysis of Polish transitive clause order from the perspective of two competing word order principles, namely the form-driven principle of syntactic weight proposed by Hawkins and the pragmatically based Topic > Comment principle.

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