Re: Linguistic Universals?
| From: | Charles <catty@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 11, 1999, 19:49 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> Is there a linguistic universal that links the order of S, O and V
> within a sentance to any particular order of Adverb+Verb or
> Adjective+Noun?
Universal, no. Anything logically possible is natlang-probable, somewhere.
But there are tendencies and implications:
Long answer:
http://www.srv.net/~ram/essays.html
About those adjectives:
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/archives/Linguist/Vol-7-1500-1599/0097.html
(This just for fun:)
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/7/7-1262.html
Morphology vs. syntax?
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/3/3-452.html