Review article

What kind of word order is about?

Anita Peti-Stantić ; University of Zagreb - Faculty of Philosophy

Abstract

The author discusses the relationship between naming and interpreting certain features of word order, especially of clitic placement. This discussion is based on a survey of linguistic terminology connected to the word order and clitic placement in Croatian language exhibited in 19th and 20th century grammars. Further she discusses the need for drawing a line between the grammatical and infomation sentence organization when discussing the word order. In the end the author proposes the possibility for improvement of a terminology concerning so called word order.

Keywords

word order; ordering of syntactic units; clitics; obligatory word order; free word order; Croatian

Hrčak ID:

22285

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/22285

Publication date:

28.2.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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