Re: Conlang Change and The Definite Article

Raymond Brown wrote:
>
> At 12:03 pm -0400 22/4/00, Doug Ball wrote:
> >Approximately how many VSO languages are there all told?
>
> Does anyone know?  Are there other examples besides the Celtic & Semitic
> languages?  I guess there probably are.
I've read an estimate of about 15% of the world's languages, most of the
other 85% split between SVO and SOV, and around 1% for all the other
three orders.

> Depends on the non-Celtic & non-Semitic counter examples people come up
> with, I guess.
Intuitively, I suspect that there's no connection.  But, I don't have
any data to back me up.

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