Stability and flexibility of word order in East Greenlandic Tunumiisut

Nicole Tersis (1) , Shirley Carter-Thomas (2, 3)

1 CELIA - Centre d'Études des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique
2 Lattice - Lattice - Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition - UMR 8094
3 IMT-BS - LSH - Département Langues et Sciences Humaines

Eskimo languages have generally been characterized as SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) languages, with this configuration representing a “clearly dominant pragmatically neutral ordering pattern” . The goal of this article will be to evaluate the relative stability or flexibility of this pattern in Tunumiisut.

Mots clés: Word order variations; Transitivity; Information structure

Domaines: Linguistique

Nicole Tersis, Shirley Carter-Thomas. Stability and flexibility of word order in East Greenlandic Tunumiisut. Colloque "Crisis and stability", Dec 2004, INALCO, Paris, France. ⟨halshs-00285592⟩