Re: tense marking and typology
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 10, 1999, 6:05 |
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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.
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