scrambling

This dissertation aims to deepen our understanding of free word order phenomena or "scrambling." It offers a unified approach to some fundamental limitations on scrambling both in clauses and in noun phrases of Korean. These would have been attributed to a headedness parameter i…

This study raises certain questions regarding the split character of the scrambling operation in Turkish as a leftward movement. The main discussion concerns the status of post-verbal arguments. It provides evidence that although Turkish is an SOV language, OSV, SVO, OVS, and ev…