Word Order and Scrambling

Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction by Simin Karimi xiii
1 Topic and Focus Scope Positions in Navajo 1
Kenneth Hale, Eloise Jelinek, and MaryAnn Willie
2 Argument Scrambling, Operator Movement, and Topic Movement inHungarian 22
Katalin E. Kiss
3 Grammatical Relations in Tohono O'odham: an InstrumentalPerspective 44
Mizuki Miyashita, Richard Demers, and Delbert Ortiz
4 Bare Nominals: Non-Specific and Contrastive Readings underScrambling 67
Veneeta Dayal
5 On Object Positions, Specificity, and Scrambling in Persian91
Simin Karimi
6 Scrambling, Subscrambling, and Case in Turkish 125
Jaklin Kornfilt
7 Does Russian Scrambling Exist? 156
John Frederick Bailyn
8 A-Movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality177
Shigeru Miyagawa
9 Scrambling in Dutch: Optionality and Optimality 201
Helen de Hoop
10 Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement 217
Anoop Mahajan
11 Non-Canonical Word Order: Topic and Focus in Adult and ChildTamil 238
Vaijayanthi Sarma
12 L2 Acquisition of Japanese: Knowledge and Use of CaseParticles in SOV and OSV Sentences 273
Noriko Iwasaki
13 Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies, Complexity, andConstraints 301
Irina A. Sekerina
14 WH-Movement versus Scrambling: the Brain Makes a Difference325
Angela D. Friederici, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Christian J.Fiebach
References 345
Index 368