the occurrence contrast between VOS and OVS orders

[bingfu Lu]

  Dear colleagues, 
   
  I wonder if anyone has explained the distributional contrast between VOS languages and OVS languiages.  The former is significantly frequent than the latter.
   
  Thanks in advance!
   
  Bingfu Lu
  Institute of Linguistics
  Shanghai Normal University

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