Re: Help: Looking for Source

Stevo wrote:
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What Comrie book do you have?
I have "The world's major languages".
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology from 1981 (got
it used from the Berkeley linguistics library book sale).  I'm now
fairly certain that I actually got the example off a handout I got
in my graduate typology seminar...  I think it was not in a paper
by Comrie, but it was in a book chapter in someone else's book
that cited the example *from* Comrie...

Jeff Jones:
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I don't recognize it, but could it be an Australian language???
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It was either Australian or South American.  I remember that it
was SVO word order, and that each of the four words in the
four word sentence (which was something like "The boy gave
the girl a book") was very large.  I'm not doing anything else
right now; I think I'll actually go ahead and go through all my
old files...  If I find it, though, it's going up here. Thank goodness
for the internet!  It saves and protects all!

-David
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