Re: deeply embedded VSO nightmare
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 21, 2001, 3:10 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> The Semitic langs are also basically
> VSO (perhaps not modern Hebrew) so some of the Arabists on the list should
> be able to help you out. >>
>
> Uhhh...what? Is this true?
It's not true of the modern languages, but proto-Semetic is believed to
have been VSO. I think Classical Arabic was VSO, altho the modern langs
are mostly SVO.
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