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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.
If this ...
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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 ...