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Re: R: Re: Greenberg's universals

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 15:09
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! =============================== Marcus Smith AIM: Anaakoot "When you lose a language, it's like dropping a bomb on a museum." -- Kenneth Hale ===============================