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Re: Branching typologies [was: Re: "easiest" languages, SE Asian word-order typologies]

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, September 27, 2001, 5:36
Kou wrote:


>From: "Thomas R. Wier" > >> You know what -- we should compile a brief synopsis of all types >> of conlinguistic typologies. It would shed some light not so much >> on language, but rather more likely, on the conlanger population. > >[Géarthnuns is SOV] and right-branching (I never *quite* got this term)?
It tends to confuse me, too.
>Adjectives, relative clauses, participial phrases follow a noun. Adverbs >that describe adjectives follow the adjective. Adverbs that describe
another
>adverb follow that adverb. Adverbs that describe verbs are usually >immediately before the verb ...
All that describes Kash, as well.
>since sentence structure is strictly verb-final,...
Here we part company. Kash is SVO, optional OVS, occasionally VOS.

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Sally Caves <scaves@...>