Re: R: Re: Greenberg's universals
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2000, 10:49 |
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On 13 Sept, Matt Pearson wrote:
>Just a quick footnote to this thread: Who says that VSO languages
generally do
>not have articles? That's clearly false. Celtic, Semitic, Philippine,
Salishan,
>Polynesian, and Mayan languages--the usual VSO suspects, in other
words--*all*
>have articles or determiners of some kind. In fact, if I had to formulate
a
>universal it would be that VSO languages generally *do* have articles.
Semitic, VSO? Examples, please?
The Hebrew that I am exposed to daily
seems pretty SVO to me!
FWIW, Hebrew has a definite article
and lacks the indefinite article.
(I believe that the situation in Arabic is similar.)
Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
A word is an awesome thing.