On the Postverbal Constraint in Chinese,the Preverbal Ponstraint in Mande Languages and the"Quantitatively Constrained Word Order"
The paper examines the postverbal constraint in Chinese and the preverbal constraint in Mande languages,i.e.,the number of constituents that follow the verb in Chinese and that precede the verb in the Mande languages,respectively,is limited,exhibiting a different word order type than ordinary SVO and SOV.Modern Standard Mandarin contains a few exceptions to the postverbal con-straint,but their usage is restricted.The postverbal/preverbal constraint can be categorized as"quan-titatively constrained word order",in contrast to"quality-based word order"and"position-based word order".The introduction of quantitatively constrained word order which is differentiated from the oth-er two types of word order would enrich our understanding of the word order typology.
post-/preverbal constraintquantitatively constrained word orderChineseMandeword order typology
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