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<div>Olga,</div>
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<div>I discuss a number of VOS languages of this sort in</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dryer, Matthew S. 1980. The Positional Tendencies of Sentential Noun Phrases in Universal Grammar. </span><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Canadian
Journal of Linguistics</i><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 25: 123-195.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">which can be downloaded from </span><a href="http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dryer/DryerSententialNPs1980.pdf">http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dryer/DryerSententialNPs1980.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of Olga Zamaraeva <<a href="mailto:olzama@uw.edu">olzama@uw.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 6:19 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Lingtyp] VOS languages and clausal complement extraposition<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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<div>It is my understanding that clausal complements (in particular, objects) often like to be at the end of the matrix clause. For example, in Turkic languages, which often have basic SOV order, some clausal objects must be extraposed; similarly in Persian,
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<div>Are there examples of V-initial (VOS) languages disallowing clausal objects in sentence-medial position? I've come across mentions of it, for instance that some Mayan languages do that (Aissen, 1992), but I am having a hard time finding clear IGT examples
in descriptive grammars.</div>
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<div>Would anyone be able to point me to such a source?</div>
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<div>Thank you,</div>
<div>Olga Zamaraeva</div>
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<div>Department of Linguistics</div>
<div>University of Washington</div>
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