Timeline for Are there any configurational languages that AREN'T verb-medial?
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| Nov 30, 2017 at 0:12 | comment | added | user19661 | I noticed several languages (I've never even heard of some of the others) in the SOV list have poly-personal agreement. And besides, there's languages like Swahili which have no case marking ON THEIR NOUNS, but case is still typically marked on the verb. And Swahili of course has a rather large noun-class system. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 10:56 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | @WavesWashSands The WALS survey focusses on morphological case in its case count. Other means of expressing case (pre- or postpositions, indpendent particles) don't count. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 8:47 | comment | added | WavesWashSands | It seems somewhat weird to classify Tagalog as a language without case marking, considering its notoriously complicated case system... Probably the Austronesian particles don't count as cases because of the way the WALS values were defined, but I doubt it's an example of what the OP has in mind... | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | brass tacks | It seems the underlying word order of Welsh is disputed, however, with some arguing that it may be VSO (kind of like how German is commonly analyzed as having underlying SOV word order, with verb-second order in finite clauses derived from this by some kind of process). | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 10:54 | history | answered | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |