The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited

By Matthew Dryer. 2009

60 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics

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In Cultural Studies

1. N. Chater
2. Morten H. Christiansen
3. Waltraud Paul

In Language and Linguistics

1. I. Roberts
2. Morten H. Christiansen
3. N. Chater
4. Theresa Biberauer
5. Anders Holmberg
6. Waltraud Paul
7. H. Sigurðsson
8. Thomas Grano

Citations in the corpus

• Why particles are not particular: sentence-final particles in Chinese as heads of a split CP (2014, background): “The World Atlas of Language Structures and Dryer (1992, 2009) 2.1.”
• A Syntactic Universal and Its Consequences (2014, background): “The same is true in many other OV languages, such as Afrikaans, Bengali, Dutch, Hindi, Iraqw, Mangarrayi, Neo-Aramaic, Persian, Sorbian, and Turkish (see Biberauer, Sheehan, and Newton 2010 for further details and exemplification; Dryer 2009a).”
• Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, background): “[DPM] Dryer, M. S. (2009) The branching direction theory of word order correlations”