<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Folks,</span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I am interested in beginnng a statistical study on the relative rarity of the following patterns (this query will not be the basis for the study! Just a tool to start gathering data). I am first interested in knowing of languages that have any one of the specific properties below. Next I am interested in learning of any languages that are described by any subset of these. Please respond to me individually, rather than to the list as a whole. I will post a summary if there are enough responses. I would particularly appreciate any suggestions for particular corpora to consult in rarer languages. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Thanks very much in advance for your answers.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Dan</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">**</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">1. The language lacks independent factive verbs and epistemic
verbs (not counting the verb 'to see').</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">2. The language has no morphosyntactic marker of
subordination.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 32px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">3. It has no coordinating disjunctive particles (no words like 'or').</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i></i></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">4. It has no coordinating
conjunctive particle (no words like 'and').</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">5. No unambiguous complement clauses (no strong evidence for embedding as opposed to juxtaposition).</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><!--StartFragment--></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">6. No multiple possession (no structures like 'John's father's son' - whether pre or postnominal) .</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">7. No multiple modification (no structures like 'two big red apples').</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">8. No scope from one clause into another: 'John
does not believe you left' (where 'not' can negate 'believe' or 'left', as in 'It is not the case that John believes that you left' vs. 'It is the case that John believes that you did not leave')</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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200%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"> 9. No
long-distance dependencies:</span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">'Who do you think John believes __ (that Bill saw__)?'</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">'Ann, I think he told me he tried to like ___' </span></font></div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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