Cognitive aspect of word order

UDC 81 BBK 81.1

Portnova T. Yu.

The aim of the paper is an attempt to sum up linguists’ experience on the problem of word order analysis from the cognitive perspective. The article provides a review of special literature to a varying degree related to the issue. Special attention is paid to the sources analyzing the role of cognitive processes, in particular, perception in the syntactical formation of a sentence. The author shows that the word order as a linguistic category has along with the syntactical and semantic aspects a cognitive element as well.   

Key words: word order, deep structure, selectivity of perception.

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