Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational know

This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated

This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.

The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the