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This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language.

Lingüística --- Sintaxis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax. --- Word order. --- Language and languages --- Word order --- Order (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- universals in language --- order in syntax --- grammatical functions --- object shift --- structure in syntax --- word order --- subjecthood --- movement --- v2 --- Head-directionality parameter --- Morphology (linguistics) --- Periphrasis --- Preposition and postposition --- Pronoun --- Swedish language --- Verb

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This volume brings together sixteen in-depth studies of final particles in various languages of the world, offering a rich variety of approaches to this still relatively under researched class of elements. The volume is of interest to typologists, to experts in syntax and the analysis of spoken language, and to linguists studying the form and function of final particles in single languages. Final particles offers an overview of the different types of final particles found in typologically distinct languages, different methological approaches to the study of final particles, and of typical grammaticalization pathways that these elements have taken in different languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Particles (Grammar) --- Particles. --- Function words --- Language and languages --- Grammars. --- Particules (Linguistique) --- Grammaires --- Grammar, Comparative and general Particles --- Particles --- Discourse Particles. --- Final Particles. --- Relationship Between Language and Context. --- Right Periphery.