Open AccessSome remarks on word order and information structure in Romance and Greek
Author(s) -
Αρτεμισ Αλεξιαδου
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.20.2000.81
Subject(s) - word order , syntax , linguistics , romance languages , relation (database) , computer science , subject (documents) , domain (mathematical analysis) , word (group theory)
This paper is a preliminary comparative study of the relation between word order and information structure in three Null Subject Languages ((NSLs) Spanish, Italian and Greek). The aim is twofold: first I seek to examine the differences and the similarities among these languages in this domain of their syntax. Secon, I investigate the possible derivations of the various patterns and attempt to localize the differences among these languages in different underlying syntactic structures.