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What are the general word order trends of VO languages
I’ve heard that some scholars collapse SVO, VSO, and VOS into one general category of VO.
From what I understand, these VO languages allegedly exhibit strong and weak common word order trends.
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Why do dominant VSO languages all have SVO as an alternative word order?
According to Greenberg’s 6th universal, "All languages with dominant VSO order have SVO as an alternative or as the only alternative basic order."
Why are dominant VSO languages predisposed ...
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Diagnostic tests for basic word order of subject-verb-object in a topic-comment language?
I'm trying to grok ASL's grammar. There seems to be a lot of folk grammar and the professional liguists haven't been studying it for very long so there is a lot of contradictory statments about what ...
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