Re: tense marking and typology

Nik Taylor wrote:

> JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:
> > Personally, I
> > don't believe in the existence of languages with *completely* free
> > word order, but that opinion is based on admittedly limited experience.)
>
> I have read of languages where no pattern can be found in word-order,
> and, furthermore, all orders are roughly equal in frequency.  I don't
> know much about those, so I'm only speaking second-hand.
Dyarbil comes to mind, for some reason.