Re: ? how would you classify this language ?

I believe he meant that most of the descendents have
either "SOV" or "SVO" orders.

The Celtic Languages can have SVO or VSO orders, with
VSO order being the theoretically more prominent
order....although, it mostly occurs in Main
Clauses..many types of Subordinate clauses or
Infinitival clauses have SVO order.

I think it's safe to say that SOV seems a little more
prominent in the Older Languages, with SVO gaining
ground in the last thousand or so years.

(Although, you have things like Spanish and Italian
where the subject can sometimes be after the verb, and
of course all of this is just tendencies anyways)

Elliott lash

--- Rodlox <Rodlox@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: ? how would you classify this language
> ?
>
> > I'm not sure there's a typical Indo-European word
> order-- Proto IE is
> > assumed to have been SOV, most of the descendants
> vary between SOV and
> SVO.
>
>  'vary between'?  what's between them?
>  :)
>


		
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