Hes and Kus Questions in Yurok : A case for lexeme - specific word order 1 Juliette Blevins
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Many syntactic approaches view word order as a derivative property of phrase-structure. An alternative is that word order is a learned property of constructions or even lexemes. What distributional patterns might provide evidence of lexeme-specific word order? A minimal grammatical pair is presented from Yurok, an Algic language of northwestern California. Words of the same general category and phonological type are associated with distinct distributional patterns within the clause. The polar interrogative hes occurs after the first word of the sentence or finally; kus 'where, when, how' occurs initially. Though both distributions are common cross-linguistically, the existence of both types in a single language provides evidence for lexeme-specific word order patterns.
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