Crosslinguistic Study of Word Order

摘要 这项研究是一个正在进行的项目的一部分， 世界上各种语言的词序。 的目标 项目包括：（1）建立大型跨语言数据库 （2）将提供给其他语言学家的词序; 来研究语序特征 （3）互相关联;（3）检验关于 词序;（4）检查词序的可能解释 相关性和普遍性;（5）调查 语序的地理和发生分布 特色 在项目的早期阶段， 收集了各种词序参数、语素 位置参数和其他一些类型参数， 共有603种语言。 此阶段的主要目标是 试图填补数据库中各种不同的空白， 收集关于一些附加参数的数据，并 出一本书来描述这个项目的基本成果 并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.