Word Order in Klamath

Klamath, a Native American language of Oregon, has particularly "free" word order. Methods developed by Givon (1983) for the measurement of topic continuity, when applied to Klamath narrative texts, show that the position of NP's relative to the verb is not random, but determined by d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sundberg, Karen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1987-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/513