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Re: Typologic survey, part I

From:Eruanno the Linguist ( AKA Teorondron ) <eruanno@...>
Date:Saturday, January 27, 2001, 23:55
>---- PART I Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001 ---- > >House-keeping data > >Name of the participating conlang:
Spoken Thoughts ( No con-title yet :-( )
>Name/id of the creators:
Matthew Thomas Todd ( Eruanno )
>Place used, if any:
In the previously titled land of Ninvar. Used by the politicians, peasants, noble folk, and such. Some regions use other languages as well.
>Web-address with more information, if any:
http://neofire.cjb.net/lang/ NOTE: Not available now, but will work on sometime in the future...
>Type of language as per Rick Harrison's system[2]: >(see http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/l-types.html)
Like a 1.4.1-2 probably ( ??? ) My language sounds kinda Finnish, with some Swedish and Quenya...
>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? >Which orders are possible? >Is the order different if the verb is intransitive, if so, how? >If it doesn't apply, why?
All orders are possible, yet SVO and VSO are more favorable. A verb being intransitive changes nothing. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com