Re: Skälansk - History and Babel text
| From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 20:09 |
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Ray Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 07:36 , Philip Newton wrote:
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>> I think OSV is the rarest word order, with few known natlangs using it.
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> Yes, I think it is. Somewhere I have some statistics on this but I can't
> find them. From what I remember OS order languages are far less common
> than the SO langs, irrespective of where the verb is. IIRC the most common
> words orders are SVO and SOV (and I cannot remember which comes 'top') -
> but in 3rd place comes VSO languages.
The joy of the archives:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308d&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=5853
K.
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