<div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dear colleagues,</FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I am interested in the following cross-linguistic word order variation pattern, which can be exemplified with the language internal variation as follows.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(1)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times
New Roman">a.He died at home in bed.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">b. He died in bed at home.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(2)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">a. *?In bed, at home he died<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">b. ?At home, in bed, he died. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New
Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(3)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">a. At home, he died in bed.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">b. *In bed, he died at home<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">What the paradigm hints is as follows:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">When two location or time expressions having the whole-part relation co-occur, if both follow the verb, both orders are almost equally likely, as shown in (1).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If both precede the verb, the whole-part order is overwhelmingly dominant over the opposite, as shown in (2).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the two appears on the two sides of the verb.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only the whole-part order is possible, as shown in (3).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I am looking for cross-linguistic data either supporting or denying the above observation.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If feedback is enough, I will do a summary.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in
0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Bingfu Lu<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Institute of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Shanghai Normal University<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-font-family: ËÎÌå; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>