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# free Word Order
# null Anaphora
# Syntactically discontinuous expressions

Examples include Warlpiri , O'odham (Papago), and Japanese .


W-TYPE


''W-type'' languages have the following (Jelinek 1984):

# predicate-AUX complex that constitutes a finite sentence
# optional, non-argumental NPs
# split case-marking (on clitics and NPs)
# independent Pronoun s used for contrastive emphasis
# zero 3rd person marking
# adjoined clauses with two interpretations:
##temporal reading
## relative reading


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BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • Chomsky, Noam. (1981). ''Lectures on government and binding''. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.

  • Chomsky, Noam. (1982). ''Some concepts and consequences of the theory of government and binding''. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

  • Hale, Kenneth L. (1980). Remarks on Japanese phrase structure: Comments on the Papers on Japanese Syntax. In Y. Otsu & A. Farmer (Eds.), ''MIT working papers in linguistics'' (Vol. 2).

  • Hale, Kenneth L. (1981). On the position of Warlpiri in a typology of the base. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington.

  • Hale, Kenneth L. (1982). Preliminary remarks on configurationality. In J. Pustejovsky & P. Sells (Eds.), ''NELS 12'' (pp. 86-96).

  • Hale, Kenneth L. (1983). Warlpiri and the grammar of non-configurational languages. ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'', ''1'', 5-47.

  • Hale, Kenneth L. (1989). On nonconfigurational structures. In L. Marácz & P. Muysken (Eds.), ''Configurationality: The typology of asymmetries'' (pp. 293–300). Dordrecht: Foris.

  • Jelinek, Eloise. (1984). Empty categories, case, and configurationality. ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'', ''2'', 39-76.

  • Marácz, L.; & Muysken, P. (Eds.). (1989). ''Configurationality: The typology of asymmetries''. Dordrecht: Foris.