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Syntactic weight vs information structure and word order variation in Polish*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Anna Siewierska
Anna Siewierska
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Department of General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, Spui 21, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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This article presents an analysis of Polish transitive clause order from the perspective of two competing word order principles, namely the form-driven principle of syntactic weight proposed by Hawkins and the pragmatically based Topic > Comment principle.

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Research Article
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , September 1993 , pp. 233 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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