Dependency distance, measured by the linear distance between two syntactically related
words in a sentence, is generally held as an important index of memory burden and an …

Rivalry in lexeme formation refers to a situation where multiple, rival lexeme formation
processes may be used to fill a gap in a morphological family. In this paper we study one …

Heaviness (or phrasal length) has been shown to trigger mirror-image constituent ordering
preferences in head-initial and head-final languages (heavy-late vs. heavy-first). These …

We investigate the order in which speakers produce the proper names of couples they know
personally in English and Japanese, two languages with markedly different constituent word …

Prosodic end-weight refers to the well-documented tendency of prosodically heavier
constituents to be preferred at the ends of domains when other factors (eg semantics …

Three main aspects of Persian syntax have received a great deal of attention for more than
30 years: the Ezâfe construction, differential object marking with the enclitic= râ, and …

In a most recent corpus study on Persian, Faghiri & Samvelian (2014) found a significant
effect of relative length in the ordering preferences between the direct and indirect objects in …

The question of whether the 'unmarked'or 'canonical'word order in Modern Eastern
Armenian (MEA) 1 is (S) OV or (S) VO is a matter of controversy. MEA can be considered a …

Cette thèse propose une étude quantitative de la variation de l'ordre des constituants en
persan avec un intérêt particulier pour l'ordre relatif entre le COD et le COI étant donné son …

In this chapter, we investigate post-predicate elements in written Early New Persian texts
from four different sources, covering the 10th to 13th centuries. The analysis shows that post …