This is the last lesson of this course! After the last lesson on the participants of a clause, we will now move to somewhat larger structures and discuss the sentence, the order of elements and the influence this can have on pragmatic meaning (information structure)

It will be a very brief introduction and something to build on in future studies.

A. From our main textbook - Velupillai: An introduction to linguistic typology

Chapter 10 Word order.

Linguistic question

This is a much shorter chapter than the previous one. But to give you enough time to do repetitions, we will only have one additional reading, on Information Structure

B. This chapter is an introduction to Information Structure in Bantu:

Downing, Laura J. and Larry M. Hyman. 2015. Information structure in Bantu. In Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford handbooks online: Oxford University Press

Recording on word order 2022-05-23