Re: [QUESTION] Natlang Word Order

David Peterson wrote at 2003-09-03 16:18:32 (EDT)
 > Hi all,
 >
 > Does anyone know of a website that lists basic, typological facts
 > about the world languages, e.g., word order?  It occurs to me that
 > I know the word order of a lot of languages, but for the life of
 > me, I can't remember how I came across this knowledge...
 >
 > -David

THere's some useful information on this subject available from the
homepage of linguist Matthew Dryer:

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/dryer.htm

Particularly these draft chapters from the _World Atlas of Language
Structures_:

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas.adj.noun.pdf
http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas.sov.pdf


There's also the Universals Archive at the University of Konstanz:
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de:591/Universals/introduction.html