Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order
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DOI: 10.1353/lan.2020.0024
Abstract: Abstract:This work focuses on explaining both grammatical universals of word order and quantitative word-order preferences in usage by means of a simple efficiency principle: dependency locality. In its simplest form, dependency locality holds that words… read more here.
Keywords: word order; dependency locality; order; dependency ... See more keywords