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Song, Kyung-An & Lee, Eun-Ha. (2023). A typological study on the Tagalog word order: A scalar approach. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 31(1), 1-23. The purpose of this paper is to explore the word order of Tagalog in a typological perspective. The basic word order of Tagalog has been a tropical issue in typological studies, because it is not easy to treat this topic in the traditional way of word order description. In this paper we would rather simply assume that it is a V-initial language. For our further discussion, we select 15 word order parameters, 4 for the order of NP, 9 for the order of VP and two further structural parameters, the adposition and the subordinator. For each parameter we investigate whether it shows the order of head-initial pattern or that of head-final pattern. In the scalar approach we assign the score [-1] to the parameter of head-initial pattern, the score [+1] to the parameter of head-final pattern, and [0] to the parameter which allows both patterns. Vietnamese, a typical head-initial language, shows the head-initial pattern for all the 15 parameters and obtains the score [-15] in this analysis, whereas Korean, a typical head-final language, shows the head-final pattern for all the 15 parameters and obtains the score [+15]. Tagalog, a typical V-initial language, is expected to have a strong tendency of head-initial pattern order. The results of our analysis support this presumption. In neutral order Tagalog shows the head-initial pattern for all the 15 parameters. One characteristic feature thereby is that this language allows alternative orderings between the noun and its modifiers.

# 타갈로그어(Tagalog) # 어순(word order) # 핵어 전치적 패턴 (head-intial pattern) # 핵어 후치적 패턴(head-final pattern) # 계량적 유형론(scalar typology)

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