POSTPOSING AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH AND FARSI/PERSIAN

Postposing and Information Structure in English and Farsi/Persian

The term postposing denotes any construction in which a phrasal constituent appears to the right of its canonical position, leaving its initial position either empty or occupied by an expletive.Ward and Birner (2004) argue that postposed constructions preserve Chair the old-before-new information structure paradigm in English.The present paper inve

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