Languages are known to differ in how many orderings of major constituents are
grammatical, as well as how interchangeable these orders are, a property often referred to …

What does it mean for a language to have flexible constituent order, and what are the
sources of variation in this domain, both within and across languages? This thesis …

Constituent order systems have been shown to reduce in flexibility due to language contact
(Heine 2008). However, a causal link between contact and reduced flexibility has not yet …

This thesis investigates word order variation in Modern Greek (MG), and in particular, the
order of subject, verb and object in declarative clauses. Unlike English, a simple Greek …

Dahlgren's study confirms that SVO is the most frequently occurring order across the
contexts featured in his study, but statistical frequency in itself does not confirm the case for …

This chapter covers what have traditionally been called grammaticality judgments in
linguistics (which are more aptly referred to as acceptability judgments–see below). We …

This chapter covers what have been traditionally called grammaticality judgments in
linguistics (which are more aptly referred to as acceptability judgments—see below). We …

Recent works on word order flexibility tend to use a gradient approach to provide a more
accurate picture of word order patterns in language (Östling 2015, Futrell et al 2015 …

It almost goes without saying that acceptability judgments form a continuous spectrum. While
many sentences are either clearly acceptable or clearly unacceptable, a significant number …

Arguing that, in order to demonstrate the fundamental similarities between configurational
(ie, fixed word order) & nonconfigurational (ie, free word order) languages, linguistic & …