Word Order Patterns and Principles: An Overview

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Abstract Over the last several decades, word order has established itself as one of the most recurrent research topics in linguistic typology, generating insightful theories and data. This work provides an overview of recent word order research carried out within the broad framework of linguistic typology, highlighting some of the major word order patterns, and theories that have been proposed to explain them. The trend among recent studies on word order is that more and more attention is being directed towards developing processing‐based explanations. There also seems to be a tension between unifying and multiple principles (or explanations).

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