Word Order

A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research.

Jae Jung Song is Associate Professor, Linguistics Programme in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

1. Word order: setting the scene; 2. The linguistic-typological approach: empirical validity and explanation; 3. Entr'acte: historical and conceptual background of generative grammar; 4. The generative approach: stipulation or deduction; 5. The optimality-theoretic approach: violable constraints and constraint ranking; 6. The performance-based approach: efficiency in processing (and production); 7. Envoi: whither word order research?