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The nature of configurationality in LFG

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The central issue in this thesis is configurationality, which has broadly been defined in terms of a division of the world's languages based on their core syntactic structure. Specifically, languages are traditionally divided into so-called configurational and non-configurational languages. Configurational languages are assumed to be languages with many restrictions on word order, and non-configurational languages are assumed to be languages with very few or no word order restrictions. Man...

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Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty
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Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics
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Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics
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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford
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English
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2015-11-13

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