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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., author. 1986. "SOVD languages."
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1983. "Word order in New Testament Greek, part I."  
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1992. "Constituent order in copula clauses: a partial study."
• CERVIN, Richard S., author. 1993. "A critique of Timothy Friberg’s dissertation: New Testament Greek word order in light of discourse considerations."
• CLIFTON, Deborah A.; CLIFTON, John M., editors. 2002. Comments on discourse structures in ten Turkic languages.
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1995. Combining functional and formal approaches to language.
• HANSFORD, Keir, author. 1997. Review of: The emergence and development of SVO patterning in Latin and French, by Brigitte L. M. Bauer.
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1999. Review of: Information status and noncanonical word order in English, by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1990. Storyline concerns and word order typology in East and West Africa.
• LUNN, Nick, author. 2004. Word order variation in Biblical Hebrew poetry: the role of pragmatics and poetics in the verbal clause.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1985. Review of: Word order universals, by John A. Hawkins.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1999. "What counts as explanation?: a functionalist approach to word order."
• PAYNE, Doris L., editor. 1992. Pragmatics of word order flexibility.
• PIERPONT, William G., author. 1986. "Studies in word order: Personal pronoun possessives in nominal phrases in the New Testament."
• SMITH, Robert E., author. 1984. "The unmarked order of pronominal objects and indirect objects."
• SWARTZ, Stephen M., author. 1986. "Clause level focus in John’s Gospel and pragmatic structure."
• WARREN, Andy, author. 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., author. 1984. Tikar word order and partial agreement strategies.
• JARVIS, Elizabeth, author. 1981. "Some considerations in establishing the basic word order of Podoko."

Côte d’Ivoire

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

Ethiopia

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

Kenya

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

Liberia

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

Nigeria

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

Sudan

• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1987. Word order in Aramaic from the perspectives of functional grammar and discourse analysis.
• GILLEY, Leoma G.; KILPATRICK, Eileen, authors. 2004. "The importance of word order in explaining tone patterns in Avokaya verbs."
• SCHRÖDER, Helga, author. 2002. Word order in Toposa: an aspect of multiple feature-checking.
• SCHRÖDER, Helga, author. 2008. Word Order in Toposa: An Aspect of Multiple Feature-Checking.  
• WATSON, Richard L., author. 1997. "OV word order in Maʼdiʔ."

Tanzania

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

Americas

Brazil

• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1977. "Word order universals and the existence of OVS languages."
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1979. A diachronic explanation for the origin of OVS in some Carib languages.
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1986. "Topic continuity and OVS order in Hixkaryana."
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 2008. "Word order universals and the existence of OVS languages."
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C.; PULLUM, Geoffrey K., authors. 1979. Object-initial languages.
• GRIFFITHS, Glyn, author. 1991. WH—movement in Kadiwéu.
• HARRISON, Carl H., author. 1986. "Verb prominence, verb initialness, ergativity and typological disharmony in Guajajara."

Mexico

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

Peru

• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1989. "Clitic doubling, reflexives, and word order alternations in Yagua."
• FUQUA, Ronald W., author. 1992. Word order in discourse of North Junín Quechua.
• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 2003. "La pragmática del orden de las palabras en el quechua del sur de conchucos."
• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 2003. "Pragmatics of word order in South Conchucos Quechua."
• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 2003. Word order in South Conchucos Quechua.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1986. "Basic constituent order in Yagua clauses: implications for word order universals."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. The pragmatics of word order: Typological dimensions of verb initial languages.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1993. "Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1993. "On the function of word order in Yagua narrative."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1995. "Verb initial languages and information order."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1981. Orden básico de los elementos gramaticales en yagua.

Suriname

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

United States

• HARM, Harry J., author. 1983. "Word order in Jude."
• LEMAN, Elena M., author. 1991. Word order of major constituents in Cheyenne narratives.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1987. "Information structuring in Papago narrative discourse."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. "Nonidentifiable information and pragmatic order rules in ʼOʼodham."
• RADNEY, J. Randolph, author. 1988. "Some factors that influence fronting in Koine clauses."

Venezuela

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

Asia

Indonesia

• BATEMAN, Janet, author. 1982. The topic-comment construction in Iau.

Malaysia

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

Philippines

• BRAINARD, Sherri; VANDER MOLEN, Ena, authors. 2005. "Word order inverse in Obo Manobo."  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1995. "Verb initial languages and information order."
• QUAKENBUSH, J. Stephen, author. 1992. "Word order and discourse type: An Austronesian example."

Pacific

Australia

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

Papua New Guinea

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