Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea at the time

 --- Isidora Zamora wrote:
> Of course, it isn't actually possible to violate *all* of them at
> once, since many of them are applicable only to certain types of
> languages, but you could certainly hold a contest to see who could
> violate the most universals at one time.
When I was going through to check how Ikanirae Seru matched up, I
noticed that lots of universals referred specifically to VSO and SOV
languages, but few if any referred specifically to SVO languages, so a
VSO or SOV language would have an easier chance at violating lots of
universals than a SVO one.  (Ikanirae Seru is SVO.)

Estel

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