phrase order

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      4 words ...phrase order. See word order .

word order

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;      62 words ...word order The order in which words come in clauses...In inflected languages such as Latin, word order may be comparatively free , because a...few inflections, has a much more fixed word order. The basic unmarked word order is SVO...

order of words

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;      4 words ...order of words See WORD ORDER .

‘word order’

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      74 words ...‘word order’. Used widely of the order of...commonly, phrases. E.g. the ‘basic word order’ in English is ‘SVO’...many, follows it. Hence ‘free word order’ often means, more strictly...

hyperbaton

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      20 words ...hyperbaton [hʌɪˈpəːbətən]. The ancient term for any departure from normal word order.

The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...IVAN SHING CHUNO KWONG, The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded...presents a functional analysis of the word order of the Gospel of Luke and applies the...methodological introduction, an analysis of the word order of the clauses in Luke, and studies of...

fixed

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;      255 words ......either of an individual word or of the word order is likely. Examples of fixed phrases...Theatre) with the OldˈVic . fixed word order: a characteristic of some languages, whereby a change in the word order can change the meaning of (a part...

You say assurance, I say insurance: if it were only that...

Risk Management;  October 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......more elusive. Who is to say that the word order of the policy's new language, which can...different from the original-language word order, may not influence the interpretation...literal in two ways: by mimicking the word order of the original document or by containing...

Focus and Structure in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of Word Order and...

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  October 1, 2003 ;     697 words ......Structure in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of Word Order and Information Structure (Bethesda...a growing body of literature treating word order in Biblical Hebrew (BH). His goals are...principle for both nominal and verbal clause word order; (2) to ascertain the role of the clause-initi...

Word Order in Arabic. (Reviews of Books).

The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Word Order in Arabic. By SVE-OLAF DAHLGREN, Orientalia...quantifiable precision to the question of word order, a topic which, as Dahlgren observes...the disputed existence of universals in word order, the functional sentence perspective...

Task sensitivity of animacy effects: evidence from German picture...

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......conceptual property of referents, affects word order. It is commonly assumed that animacy...are conceptualized can directly affect word order. That is, animates tend to surface in...referent processing and, consequently, word order in sentence production. We begin with...

Cebuano passives revisited.(Report)

Oceanic Linguistics;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......reinterprets those with Verb-Patient-Agent (VPA) word order as passive. In this paper, we argue against...Comrie 1988:21); low text frequency; and a word order distinct from the active construction...gi-verb constructions that have a PA word order as passive constructions, because ...

Topic-worthiness in German and English *.

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......many cases, the differences concern word order (as well as perspective and structural...verb phrase and more or less free word order as opposed to a language with a head initial verb phrase and rigid word order. 1. The beginning How do we begin...

Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics...

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...NICHOLAS P. LUNN, Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry...latest additions to the literature on word order in Biblical Hebrew. It is distinguished...begins by identifying the problem of word order variation in Biblical Hebrew poetry...

THE RED PENCIL

The Washington Post;  August 12, 1998 ;     102 words ......Middle English? A: This one is easy. Word order started dominating; inflections started...like Modern English, relies heavily on word order for meaning. "The dog bites the man...only their order is different. Thus, word order determines meaning. In Old English, the...