Re: Typologic survey, part I

> ---- PART I Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001 ----
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> House-keeping data
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> Name of the participating conlang:
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Denden
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> Name/id of the creators:
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Boudewijn Rempt
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> Name/id of the submitter, if different from the creator:
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> n/a
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> Place used, if any:
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Lingua franca on the northern hemisphere of Andal
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> Web-address with more information, if any:
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http://www.valdyas.org/andal/languages (overview)
http://www.valdyas.org/andal/languages/denden/grammar (grammar)

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> Type of language as per Rick Harrison's system[2]:
> (see http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/l-types.html)
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2.1.2, but don't quote me on it: his system seems singularly unsuited
to artlangs.
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> 1: Word order of Subject (S), Object (O) and Verb (V)
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> The possible orders are: SVO/SOV/VSO/VOS/OSV/OVS/free/doesn't apply
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> Which order(s) is/are most common?
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SOV, SVO
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> Which orders are possible?
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Word order is determined by the native dialect of the speaker: both
SOV and SVO are common and equivalent.

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> Is the order different if the verb is intransitive, if so, how?
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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?)

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