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Re: Typologic survey, part I

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2001, 21:44
> ---- PART I Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001 ---- > > House-keeping data > > Name of the participating conlang: >
Denden
> > Name/id of the creators: >
Boudewijn Rempt
> > Name/id of the submitter, if different from the creator: > > n/a > > Place used, if any: >
Lingua franca on the northern hemisphere of Andal
> > Web-address with more information, if any: >
http://www.valdyas.org/andal/languages (overview) http://www.valdyas.org/andal/languages/denden/grammar (grammar)
> > Type of language as per Rick Harrison's system[2]: > (see http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/l-types.html) >
2.1.2, but don't quote me on it: his system seems singularly unsuited to artlangs.
> > 1: Word order of Subject (S), Object (O) and Verb (V) > > The possible orders are: SVO/SOV/VSO/VOS/OSV/OVS/free/doesn't apply > > Which order(s) is/are most common? >
SOV, SVO
> > Which orders are possible? >
Word order is determined by the native dialect of the speaker: both SOV and SVO are common and equivalent.
> > Is the order different if the verb is intransitive, if so, how? >
No, except that there's no object, of course. (To quote Irina - are actual languages that go from SV to VS or the other way round dependent on the presence of O?) Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org