Distance minimization is a general principle of language. A special case of this principle in
the domain of word order is swap distance minimization. This principle predicts that …

Distance minimization is a general principle of language. A special case of this principle in
the domain of word order is swap distance minimization. This principle predicts that …

This paper provides an analysis of local object scrambling that generates the Object (O),
Subject (S), and Verb (V) word order in Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan isolate spoken in Sri Lanka …

Reduplication, as seen in many languages of the world, is the systematic repetition of
phonological material within a word for semantic or grammatical purposes. Generally, two …