Re: Computer syntax and VSO
| From: | Rob Haden <magwich78@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 20:31 |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:00:42 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>If so, it's surprising that of the ~60% of languages which aren't SOV, two-
>thirds or so are SVO. (Assuming the statistics I've seen are accurate.)
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> Andreas
One has to wonder how many currently SVO languages became so under the
influence of SVO Indo-European languages. For example, Finnish is SVO, but
its structure shows that it was SOV until recently (via contact with
Scandinavian languages).
- Rob
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