Scrambling (linguistics)
Within transformational grammar, scrambling is a common term for pragmatic word order.[1] In the Chomskian tradition, word orders of all languages are taken to be derived from a common source with a fundamental word order, so languages which do not follow a set pattern can be said to be "scrambled" from a "normal" word order. Two subtypes of scrambling are generally identified: scrambling of phrases (noun phrases, prepositional phrases, complementizer phrases, etc., or more generally, of arguments), and scrambling of words within phrases.
Notes
- ^ This term was coined by John R. Ross in his 1967 dissertation, published as Ross 1986, and is widely used in generative approaches.
See also
References
- Karimi, Simin. 2003. Word Order and Scrambling. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Müller, Gereon. 1998. Incomplete Category Fronting. Kluwer: Dordrecht.
- Riemsdijk, H. van and N.Corver (eds) 1994. Studies on scrambling: movement and non-movement approaches to free word order. Berlin and New York.
- Ross, John R. (1986). Infinite syntax!. Norwood, NJ: ABLEX, ISBN 0-89391-042-2.