Re: R: Re: Greenberg's universals

Mangiat wrote:

>Yesterday I borrowed Greenberg's 'Language Universals' (1966 by Mouton &
>Co.) from Como's library. I read it all yesterday evening, but there were no
>hints to word-order universals (those like 'VSO langs generally do not have
>articles'). Were these universals published only in 'Universals of Language'
>(1963)?
they should be "Universals of Language", MIT Press, 1966 (or so my reference
claims).  Actually, some of the universals I mentioned before (like the one
you
mention above about articles) did not come from Greenberg's work.  They were
given to me as a handout by a prof, and the handout was adapted from work done
by Edward Keenan.  I don't know where or if this material has been published.

 That book is not available. Could you please resume the contents
>here or address me to a good wwwsite?
If I can find time, perhaps I could post all 45 of Greenbergs word order
universals from that paper.  Sorry, I won't reproduce the handout, because it
is far too many pages long!







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Marcus Smith
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