Word Order and Scrambling

Simin Karimi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is on the editorial board of the journal Linguistic Analysis and has published widely in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, and Lexicology.

"This collection provides thought-provoking material which will stimulate much future research. Perhaps the most fundamental question, addressed in the first six chapters, is the nature of the relation between scrambling and pragmatic features ... The issues raised in the book are important for any theory of syntax, language acquisition and/or the syntax-pragmatics interface." Linguistics "This volume represents well the depth and the scope of current research on scrambling. It illustrates the rich and diverse phenomena the term ‘scrambling’ covers and shows nicely that they provide a wealth of information for the development of linguistic theory." Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University "I highly recommend this volume to anyone interested in issues on word order, particularly issues related to the ‘free word order’ phenomena sometimes collectively called ‘scrambling’. The book is an impressive collection of papers over a wide range of topics on word order in a number of typologically diverse languages, viewed mainly from syntax and semantics, but also incorporating insights from language acquisition and brain imaging." Naoki Fukui, Sophia University

• Acknowledgments ixNotes on Contributors xIntroduction by Simin Karimi xiii1 Topic and Focus Scope Positions in Navajo 1Kenneth Hale, Eloise Jelinek, and MaryAnn Willie2 Argument Scrambling, Operator Movement, and Topic Movement in Hungarian 22Katalin E. Kiss3 Grammatical Relations in Tohono O’odham: an Instrumental Perspective 44Mizuki Miyashita, Richard Demers, and Delbert Ortiz4 Bare Nominals: Non-Specific and Contrastive Readings under Scrambling 67Veneeta Dayal5 On Object Positions, Specificity, and Scrambling in Persian 91Simin Karimi6 Scrambling, Subscrambling, and Case in Turkish 125Jaklin Kornfilt7 Does Russian Scrambling Exist? 156John Frederick Bailyn8 A-Movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality 177Shigeru Miyagawa9 Scrambling in Dutch: Optionality and Optimality 201Helen de Hoop10 Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement 217Anoop Mahajan11 Non-Canonical Word Order: Topic and Focus in Adult and Child Tamil 238Vaijayanthi Sarma12 L2 Acquisition of Japanese: Knowledge and Use of Case Particles in SOV and OSV Sentences 273Noriko Iwasaki13 Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies, Complexity, and Constraints 301Irina A. Sekerina14 WH-Movement versus Scrambling: the Brain Makes a Difference 325Angela D. Friederici, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Christian J. FiebachReferences 345Index 368