Timeline for how do SOV langues mark Subject?
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 21:37 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | Note that there is now a stackexchange devoted to constructed languages: Constructed Languages | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | amI | Since verbs are considered as 'heads' of object phrases, an SOV lang would probably be 'head last', and use postpositions (like your 'ke') instead of prepositions. When S and O are on the same side of the verb, subject and object markers are needed for clarity. SVO langs can eliminate these markers and be more efficient. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 18:25 | vote | accept | Durakken | ||
| Dec 31, 2016 at 16:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/815234628642623488 | ||
| Dec 31, 2016 at 13:25 | answer | added | Sir Cornflakes | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 19:54 | answer | added | Eleshar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 19:08 | comment | added | Durakken | So nominative marking is highly common regardless of word order making any survey on word order contributing to subject marking preferences dubious is what you're saying? And so it doesn't matter whether I have a marker or not. Ok, that makes sense ^.^ thanks. | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 18:12 | comment | added | WavesWashSands | (But I'm no expert in this at all; if others are reading this, please correct me if I'm wrong!) | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 18:12 | comment | added | WavesWashSands | @Durakken Yep, but in linguistic discussions where we need to segment morphemes, we generally limit - to affixes and use = for clitics. I'm not aware of such a survey and I can't find one on Google Scholar yet, though if there is one, I'd be somewhat sceptical of whether there's a causal link between overt nominative marking and SOV unless some functional explanation is given for the tendency. Zero-marking for nominatives is an effect of economy - Nominative arguments are the most common, and can thus be made covert - and I'm not sure if SOV alone is related to that. | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | Durakken | So some have a marking, but not all... do you know if there has been a survey that says if they more often do or do not? Or in your general experience do you think/feel they do or do not? | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 18:01 | comment | added | Durakken | @WavesWashSands forgive me if you knew this already, but the "-" is just there to make it clearer what I'm pointing out. I would normally write it as "Danke" but considering that is a name already, that would make it confusing. ^.^ | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 17:58 | comment | added | BillJ | In Turkish, which is an SOV language, the subject would be marked off with a comma: "Bob, Susan and Dan kicked" | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 17:55 | comment | added | WavesWashSands | It depends on the language; some SOV languages mark the nominative (Japanese, Korean), some don't (early Latin), and some don't even have a nominative-accusative system (Basque, Nepalese)... I think your ke marker is fine; it's called an enclitic, though we usually use = instead of - in front of clitics, a convention you might want to adopt. | |
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