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configurational language

SYNTAX: a language that has a fairly rigid word order based on a specifically ordered D-structure. EXAMPLE: English is a configurational language, as opposed to languages such as Walpiri which are supposed to lack an ordered D-structure, and which, as a result, exhibit extremely free word order variation.
LIT. Hale, K. (1983)
Webelhuth (1984)