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Re: Typologic survey, part I

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, January 27, 2001, 19:45
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> ---- PART I Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001 ---- > > House-keeping data > > Name of the participating conlang:
Chevraqis
> Name/id of the creators:
Yoon Ha Lee
> Name/id of the submitter, if different from the creator:
n/a
> Place used, if any:
Qenar and Avren (nations in a fantasy setting of my own devising, for a half-finished novel)
> Web-address with more information, if any:
http://yhl.freeservers.com/conlang.html (Note: website information is subject to updates)
> Type of language as per Rick Harrison's system[2]: > (see http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/l-types.html)
2.1 (I think) with the occasional rare quasi-borrowing from Korean or Japanese (not in any systematic fashion).
> 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?
Free word order is typical, but there's a bias toward SOV in most constructions.