The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this the

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative

This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.

All normal humans have the same basic cognitive capacity for language. Nevertheless, the world's languages differ in the kind and number of grammatical options

Word Order Universals