Re: Metaconlinguistic terminology et alia

Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> At 12:32 pm -0700 4/7/99, Sally Caves wrote:
> >Leo J. Moser wrote:
> >>
> >> do we know if PIE was SOV or SVO or ....  ?
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >I believe I've read that Indo-European was originally
> >SOV, so it stands to reason that Proto-Indo European
> >may have been also.
>
> That's what I've understood also, tho I have to admit I don't know the full
> evidence.  Certainly in both ancient Greek & Latin there was a tendency to
> favor SOV, especially in subordinate clauses.
For a little essay on the *kind* of evidence used to claim this, and
some of its implications/uses in constructed languages, check out my
essay/ripoff of a chapter of Croft's book on universals at the
following URL:

http://arcanum.iwarp.com/universals.html

Ed