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Word order

Index of SIL publications on Word order listed by country.

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General works

• Blansitt, Edward L., Jr. 1986. "SOVD languages."
• Callow, John C. 1983. "Word order in New Testament Greek, part I."
• Callow, John C. 1992. "Constituent order in copula clauses: a partial study."
• Cervin, Richard S. 1993. "A critique of Timothy Friberg’s dissertation: New Testament Greek word order in light of discourse considerations."
• Clifton, John M. and Deborah A. Clifton, editors. 2002. Comments on discourse structures in ten Turkic languages.
• Dooley, Robert A. 1995. "Combining functional and formal approaches to language."
• Hansford, Keir. 1997. Review of: The emergence and development of SVO patterning in Latin and French, by Brigitte L. M. Bauer.
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1999. Review of: Information status and noncanonical word order in English, by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward.
• Longacre, Robert E. 1990. Storyline concerns and word order typology in East and West Africa.
• Lunn, Nicholas Peter. 2004. Word order variation in Biblical Hebrew poetry: the role of pragmatics and poetics in the verbal clause.
• Payne, Doris L. 1985. Review of: Word order universals, by John A. Hawkins.
• Payne, Doris L., editor. 1992. Pragmatics of word order flexibility.
• Payne, Doris. 1999. "What counts as explanation?: a functionalist approach to word order."
• Pierpont, William G. 1986. "Studies in word order: Personal pronoun possessives in nominal phrases in the New Testament."
• Smith, Robert E. 1984. "The unmarked order of pronominal objects and indirect objects."
• Swartz, Stephen M. 1986. "Clause level focus in John’s Gospel and pragmatic structure."
• Warren, Andy. 1999. Review of: Clause structure and word order in Hebrew and Arabic: An essay in comparative Semitic syntax, by Ur Shlonsky.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Jackson, Ellen M. 1984. Tikar word order and partial agreement strategies.
• Jarvis, Elizabeth. 1981. "Some considerations in establishing the basic word order of Podoko."

Côte d’Ivoire

• Marchese, Lynell. 1984. "Exbraciation in the Kru language family."

Ethiopia

• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Word order shift in negative sentences of Surma languages."

Kenya

• Larsen, Iver A. 1991. "Word order and relative prominence in New Testament Greek."
• Payne, Doris L. 1995. "Verb initial languages and information order."

Liberia

• Marchese, Lynell. 1984. "Exbraciation in the Kru language family."

Nigeria

• Burquest, Donald A. 1981. "Evidence for object-verb ordering in Chadic."

Sudan

• Buth, Randall J. 1987. Word order in Aramaic from the perspectives of functional grammar and discourse analysis.
• Kilpatrick, Eileen and Leoma Gilley. 2004. "The importance of word order in explaining tone patterns in Avokaya verbs."
• Schröder, Helga. 2002. Word order in Toposa: an aspect of multiple feature-checking.
• Schröder, Helga. 2008. Word order in Toposa: an aspect of multiple feature-checking.  
• Watson, Richard L. 1997. "OV word order in Maʼdiʔ."

Tanzania

• Payne, Doris L. 1995. "Verb initial languages and information order."

Americas

Brazil

• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1977. "Word order universals and the existence of OVS languages."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1979. "A diachronic explanation for the origin of OVS in some Carib languages."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1986. "Topic continuity and OVS order in Hixkaryana."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 2008. "Word order universals and the existence of OVS languages."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1979. "Object-initial languages."
• Griffiths, Glyndwr. 1991. WH—movement in Kadiwéu.
• Harrison, Carl H. 1986. "Verb prominence, verb initialness, ergativity and typological disharmony in Guajajara."

Mexico

• Benton, Joseph P. 1987. "Clause and sentence-level word order and discourse strategy in Chichicapan Zapotec oral narrative discourse."  
• Elson, Benjamin F. 1989. "Word order in Sierra Popoluca."
• Kreikebaum, Wolfram. 1987. "Fronting and related features in Santo Domingo Albarradas Zapotec."  
• Marlett, Stephen A. 1987. "Extraction from complement clauses in Koine Greek."
• Pike, Evelyn G. 1995. "Variant orders of nuclear and marginal clause constituents in Mixtec of San Miguel el Grande, Mexico."

Peru

• Everett, Daniel L. 1989. "Clitic doubling, reflexives, and word order alternations in Yagua."
• Fuqua, Ronald W. 1992. Word order in discourse of North Junín Quechua.
• Hintz, Diane M. 2003. "La pragmática del orden de las palabras en el quechua del sur de conchucos."
• Hintz, Diane M. 2003. "Pragmatics of word order in South Conchucos Quechua."
• Hintz, Diane M. 2003. Word order in South Conchucos Quechua.
• Payne, Doris L. 1986. "Basic constituent order in Yagua clauses: implications for word order universals."
• Payne, Doris L. 1990. The pragmatics of word order: Typological dimensions of verb initial languages.
• Payne, Doris L. 1993. "Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages."
• Payne, Doris L. 1993. "On the function of word order in Yagua narrative."
• Payne, Doris L. 1995. "Verb initial languages and information order."
• Payne, Doris. Created: 1981. Orden básico de los elementos gramaticales en yagua.

Suriname

• Hoff, Berend J. 1990. "The non-modal particles of the Carib language of Surinam and their influence on constituent order."

United States

• Leman, Elena M. 1991. Word order of major constituents in Cheyenne narratives.
• Payne, Doris L. 1987. "Information structuring in Papago narrative discourse."
• Payne, Doris L. 1992. "Nonidentifiable information and pragmatic order rules in ʼOʼodham."
• Radney, J. Randolph. 1988. "Some factors that influence fronting in Koine clauses."

Venezuela

• Payne, Doris L. 1993. "Nonconfigurationality and discontinuous expressions in Panare."
• Payne, Doris L. 1994. "OVSu versus VSuO in Panare (Cariban): do syntax and discourse match?."

Asia

Indonesia

• Bateman, Janet. 1982. "The topic-comment construction in Iau."

Malaysia

• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1991. "Constituent order in ‘di’ clauses in Malay narratives."

Philippines

• Brainard, Sherri and Ena Vander Molen. 2005. "Word order inverse in Obo Manobo."  
• Payne, Doris L. 1995. "Verb initial languages and information order."
• Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1992. "Word order and discourse type: An Austronesian example."

Pacific

Australia

• Kilham, Christine A. 1987. "Word order in Wik-Mungkan."
• Payne, Doris. 1993. Review of: Categories, constituents and constituent order in Pitjantjatjara: an aboriginal language of Australia, by Heather J. Bowe.
• Swartz, Stephen M. 1988. "Pragmatic structure and word order in Warlpiri."

Papua New Guinea

• Ikäheimonen, Tarja. Available: 2007; Created: 1998-08. The function of the sentence final position in the Mende language.  
• Johnston, Raymond L. 1978. Accounting for word order: Nakanai agentless sentences.