Re: Greenberg's universals
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 22:27 |
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
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> > The only generalization I would hazard is that verb-final languages
> > tend not to have articles--and even that is just a guess on my
> > part, based on casual observation.
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> One data point in favour of that: Valdyan is SOV and doesn't have any
> articles.
Possible conlang point against: Telek has demonstratives, but they can
co-occur with possessives, so they may not count at articles. Ambiguous.
Marcus