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This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of semantic and discourse functi

Review text: "It is perfectly obvious that Karimi's book represents an important contribution to scrambling as well as to syntactic theory in general."Anna Gras

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major

The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The

Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who co