Word order features under investigation.

Word order features under investigation.

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The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal and verb structures across 20 Chinese languages and compares them with another 43 languages from the Sino-Tibetan family. The methods employed are internal and external historical reconstruction and correlation studies from linguistic typology and sociolinguistics....

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... terms of word order features, the current study investigates 16 constructions involving different types of phrases and clauses, as given in Table 3. The analysis takes into account the relation between the head and dependent of the constructions, thereby enabling a quantification of head-initial vs. head-final tendencies occurring in a given language. ...
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... hypothesis is in line with the Altaicisation of Chinese which mainly concerns the northern part of Chinese speaking areas (as discussed in Hashimoto 1976;Xu 2006;Janhunen 2007Janhunen , 2012Szeto et al. 2018;Szeto 2019;Szeto and Yurayong 2022). The reason is that languages of the Altaic type are consistently head-final with close to zero tendency of realizing head-initial structures, in terms of the features given in Table 3. ...

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... The typology and word order in noun and verb structures in different variants of the Chinese language were discussed in the work of C. Yurayong and E. Sandman (2023). The analysis revealed that extralinguistic factors, particularly sociolinguistic ones, significantly influence word order. ...
... Modern comparative-historical studies (Dickie, 2023;Lander, 2023;Petrovitz, 2023) exhibit a notable convergence with the domains of comparative typology (Yurayong et al., 2023) and general linguistics (Abalkheel et al., 2023). Recently, however, there has been a resurgence in addressing the contentious issues originally posed by classical linguistic comparative studies. ...
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