Timeline for Relationship between SOV word order and osV prefixes
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 12:16 | history | edited | hippietrail |
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| Dec 18, 2012 at 16:24 | comment | added | acattle | In what phrase would such agreement prefixes be generated? vP? IP? Could it be a case of strong agreement features necessitating the raising of the object to specIP? This would predict an OSV surface order. Of course, this would require some rule allowing the subject to raise to specCP to obtain the observed SOV surface order. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 14:10 | answer | added | jimsug | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 19:04 | comment | added | kamil-s | Just out of curiosity: how important is word order in Washo? Does it have any grammatical meaning like in English? | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 18:19 | history | edited | Louis Rhys |
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| Oct 7, 2011 at 6:57 | history | edited | hippietrail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2011 at 19:26 | comment | added | Anthony Miles | @Aaron - Washo is a Native American language, an isolate in the Hokan group - and yes, I know that not the original meaning of "isolate". My knowledge of Washo comes from Jacobsen's Beginning Washo and the Washo Project website (some people don't have access to JSTOR). I was using Washo as an example of an SOV language with osV prefix order. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 21:33 | comment | added | Aaron | Please give genetic information about Washo in your question. Please also say what sources you have consulted on the language and where your data comes from. Do you have reason to believe that the osv morphology developed at a stage in the language when the word order was SOV? It could correspond to an earlier stage (e.g. SVO, with leftward movement of object pronouns). Note that in general, pronouns and DPs needn't occupy the same positions, as many languages with clitic pronouns demonstrate. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 20:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/116611761897095168 | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 18:29 | history | asked | Anthony Miles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |