Re: Conlang Typology Survey (partial results)
From: | Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> |
Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 8:16 |
<conlang@...> wrote:
>wait a minute, these percentages don't make sense... there are only 51
>languages, and for word orders, not all of them specified s/v/o orders. i
>have the fixed statistics here.
My fault for not specifying the s/o/v equivalent for Tolborese... see below.
>> OVS: 0 (0.0%)
Where I gave Absolutive-Verb-Ergative as the primary order for Tolborese,
this means that most transitive phrases come out as Object-Verb-Subject. So
you've got at least one OVS.
M