![]() ![]() Difference in word order structures of the languages is the manifestation of their configurational structures. ![]() ![]() Apart from comparing two languages for their grammatical differences, comparing them from the point of view of word order typology is found to be a very useful investigation. It has been investigated based on structuralist’s as well as transformational generative grammarian’s points of view.įixing the basic word order of a language as SVO, SOV, VSO etc., and its manifestations in the structure of the language is found to be a useful and necessary investigation. Studying languages from the point of view of word order typology is a practice, which is well known in Linguistics. Steele (1975), Comrie (1981), Hawkins (1983), Croft (1990) and others have studied word order typology in the light of language universals. It is Greenberg (1960, 1963) who has initiated serious investigation on the word order typology of languages and listed down his implications. The study of Word order has a long history. ![]()
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