Crosslinguistic Study of Word Order

这项研究是一个正在进行的研究世界语言语序的项目的一部分。该项目的目标是：(1)建立一个大型的跨语言语序数据库，供其他语言学家使用；(2)研究语序特征相互关联的方式；(3)检验关于语序的普遍假设；(4)研究词序相关性和共性的可能解释；(5)研究语序特征的地理和遗传分布。在项目的早期阶段，已经收集了来自603种语言的各种词序参数、语素位置参数和一些其他类型参数的数据。这一阶段的主要目标是试图填补数据库中各种不同的空白，收集关于一些额外参数的数据，并编写一本描述项目基本结果的书，使数据库可供其他语言学家使用。

ABSTRACT The research is part of an ongoing project investigating word order among the languages of the world. The goals of the project are: (1) to establish a large cross-linguistic data base on word order that will be made available to other linguists; (2) to investigate the ways in which word order characteristics correlate with each other; (3) to test universal hypotheses about word order; (4) to examine possible explanations for word order correlations and universals; and (5) to investigate the geographical and genetic distribution of word order characteristics. In the earlier phases of the project, data has been collected for a variety of word order parameters, morpheme position parameters, and a few other typological parameters from a total of 603 languages. The primary goal of this phase is to attempt to fill in a variety of different gaps in the data base, to collect data on a number of additional parameters, and to produce a book that describes the basic results of the project and makes the data base available for the use of other linguists.