Word Order in Toposa: An Aspect of Multiple Feature-Checking

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1. Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Basic Language Features
1.3 Statement of the Problem
1.4 Objectives
1.5 Hypotheses
1.6 Rationale
1.7 Scope and Limitation
1.8 Literature Review
1.9 Research
1.10 Significance of the Study

2. Theoretical Framework
2.1 The Minimalist Program
2.2 The Nominative-Accusative and Ergative-Absolutive Parameter
2.3 The Pro-Drop Parameter
2.4 Discourse Configurationality: Topic and Focus
2.5 Basic Constituent Order
2.6 The Notion of Subject
2.7 Summary and Outlook

3. Morphosyntactic Representations
3.1 The Basic Sentence Structure
3.2 The Nominative-Accusative Case-Marking System
3.3 Morphological Ergativity
3.4 Argument-Changing Processes
3.5 Applied and Direct Object
3.6 Summary

4. Complex Verb Morphology and Word Order
4.1 Co-occurrence of Argument-Increasing Devices
4.2 Co-occurrence of Argument-Increasing and Argument-Decreasing Devices
4.3 Alternatives to the Double Object Construction
4.4 Summary

5. Complex Verb Morphology in Discourse
5.1 Principle of Reference
5.2 The Principle of Focus
5.3 Contrastive Focus
5.4 Defocalised Information
5.5 Inherent Focus
5.6 Summary

6. The VS/VO Ergative Word Order
6.1 The Principle of Reference in Complex Sentences
6.2 Ergative Tendencies in Complex Sentences
6.3 Argument-Reducing Processes
6.4 Syntactic Ergatives
6.5 Summary
6.6 Conclusion

Appendix A: From Lexicon to Interface

Appendix B: Nyepido

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