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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 20.12.20 um 15:11 schrieb Elena
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"hier wohnt Maria/Maria wohnt hier": there is a pronounced IS
difference. Do you have a separate layer like "IS" in any terms,
topic - focus, old - new, whatever? For languages like Russian or
German with IS-governed constituent order it is necessary; I'm not
sure about <i>John suddenly screamed / John screamed suddenly.</i><i><i>
</i></i>What about Cabecar?<br>
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<p>Two considerations come to mind:</p>
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<li>One thing is the sheer possibility of having two or more
orderings for the components (or just one component) of a given
syntagma (construction, if you will). It just means that in
texts, such orderings may be found. Another thing is the
function of such orderings. Barring the extreme of free
variation - which everybody agrees is just the result of the
linguist throwing in the towel -, we assume that the variation
makes some semantic or functional difference. If it is
information structure, I would hope that the same operations of
information structure apply not only to <i>hier wohnt Maria</i>
~ <i>Maria wohnt hier</i>, or even only to declarative clauses
based on a two-place predicate, but more widely to constructions
of different sorts. Consequently, my construction formulas
contain no layer of information structure. But may grammar will
treat it in a separate chapter.</li>
<li>If we view grammar writing as a process, then understanding of
the workings of the grammar steadily grows over time (so we
hope). At an earlier stage, we come across some variation, which
we note and represent. At a later stage, we find out what the
variation is all about. It is well possible - and relevant cases
are documented in the history of our discipline - that the later
stage comes after publication of the grammar. In this sense, I
will, at any rate, draw that diagram representing the variation,
hoping to reach stage 2 before publication of the grammar.<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Christian<br>
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