Re: Standard Average European (was: case system)

On 11/04/08 22:48:34, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> > And, does anyone have any information on what the areal features of
> these
> > languages are?
>
> As usual, Wikipedia is your friend:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European
>
> Besides the 12 features listed therein, there are several other
> features common to the SAE language, but less characteristic
> because they are frequently found elsewhere, such as SVO order,
> accusative alignment, moderately synthetic predominantly suffixing
> morphology, absence of a phonemic velar/uvular opposition and
> absence of non-pulmonic consonants.
Now: I thought I had a pretty good understanding of linguistic
terminology and could understand most things you through at me, if
necessary having to think a little first. And maybe I'm just tired
right now, but most of the unillustrated items on the Wikipedia article
are just gibberish to me. Could someone please explain them and their
significance?

Thanks,
--
Tristan.