Hiwa Asadpour has published a paper on “A corpus analysis of the effects of definiteness and animacy on word order veration”. In this article deals with the analysis of word order variation regarding subjects, direct objects, and non-direct object phrases called the “Target” in the corpus of languages of northwestern Iran, viz., Armenian, Mukri Kurdish, and Northeastern Kurdish (Indo-European), Jewish Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (Semitic), and Azeri Turkic (Turkic). The objective is to examine the effects of formal and semantic (in)definiteness in combination with animacy on Target word order variation to find out which one can be a triggering factor.

The paper is available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/279

Reference

Asadpour, Hiwa. 2023. A corpus analysis of the effects of
definiteness and animacy on word order variation. Languages 8(4): 279.
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040279

Links

• Hiwa’s homepage: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/109653793/Associate_researcher
• Link to the paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/279