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Re: Conlang Typology Survey [was Word-Order Types]

From:Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:Sunday, November 14, 1999, 18:25
Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> > [Degaspregos ] Conlang name > > [Thomas Wier] Conlang author
> > [X] III - verb-final (SOV) > > [X] Pr - prepositional > > [X] GN - genitive modifier before a head noun > > [X] AN - attributive adjective before a houn > > (Technically, this is supposed to break Greenbergian > Universals, but it's what's happened in most IE languages, > so it fits Deg. well)
It violates #2 (prep usually implies NG) #4 (SOV usually implies postpositional) Both of those are mentioned as statistical rather than absolute universals in Greenberg, though. Ed