Timeline for How do isolating VSO languages differentiate the subject and object?
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| Jul 25 at 9:22 | answer | added | Raxrax | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 23:29 | comment | added | Lucas | Is all Indonesian considered BI (or Bahasa Indonesia)? | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 6:40 | answer | added | hippietrail | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 22:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/430831867160719360 | ||
| Feb 4, 2014 at 12:16 | history | edited | hippietrail |
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| Sep 1, 2013 at 18:35 | vote | accept | Lucas | ||
| Jul 23, 2012 at 16:42 | comment | added | jlawler | In Austronesian languages, for instance, NPs are normally marked with terminal determiners (e.g, itu/ini or -nya in BI, which is, granted, SVO), and that serves to distinguish them. In Lushootseed (VSO, but emphatically not Austronesian), only one full NP can occur in a sentence, though there are many pronominal inflections that occur freely, and many verbal inflections that determine the role of whatever NP may occur. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 16:36 | comment | added | jlawler | Generally any way of marking the beginning or ending of a noun phrase so that the constituent boundary stands out will do when word order distinguishes arguments. Much the same perceptual solution occurs in English when speakers delete non-subject relative pronouns, leaving two NPs together as the signal for subordination, instead of needing a specific relative clause marker. I.e, The car Bill saw was red, but not *The car hit Bill was red. | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 2:02 | answer | added | Justin Olbrantz | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 1:35 | history | edited | jogloran | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2012 at 22:39 | comment | added | user483 | You mean besides word order? Quite a few Oceanic languages index their arguments on the verb, which is another way of differentially marking their grammatical relations. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 21:02 | comment | added | Alenanno | Maybe it's just me, but can you elaborate a bit? I can't understand what you're talking about. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 20:27 | history | asked | Lucas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |