Abstract Capitalizing upon the typological fact that the same content may be coded in different positions and at different structural levels, this study examines whether the syntactic and the morphological levels exhibit different serial-order preferences. A large-scale comparison of word and morpheme order across six grammatical categories including definiteness and negation reveals that all six categories document the same interaction effect: the syntactic level shows a significantly higher preposing rate than the morphological level does. A morphological postposing bias is observed for five categories, a syntactic preposing bias for four and a syntactic postposing bias for two. This interaction effect is not affected by a genealogical or areal bias. The empirical patterns are mainly shaped by a predilection for lexical material to precede grammatical material. Early placement may also be brought about by ultra-high token frequency. The fact that the postposing bias does occur sporadically at the syntactic level casts some doubt on the well-known suffixing preference as the appropriate level of generalization.

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跨语言视角的排序偏见：序列顺序与结构层次的相互作用

摘要利用相同的内容可能在不同的位置和不同的结构级别进行编码的类型学事实，本研究研究了句法和形态层次是否表现出不同的序列顺序偏好。在包括确定性和否定在内的六个语法类别中对单词和语素顺序的大规模比较表明，所有六个类别都记录了相同的交互作用：句法水平显示的命题率明显高于形态水平。观察到五种类别的形态后置偏向，句法上的偏向四类和句法后置两偏。这种相互作用的影响不受谱系或区域偏差的影响。经验模式主要是由词法材料在语法材料之前的偏爱形成的。提前放置也可能是由超高令牌频率引起的。后置倾向确实在句法层面偶尔出现的事实使人们对众所周知的后缀首选项作为适当的概括水平产生了怀疑。