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<p>Dear all,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/04/2020 16:22, Ernei Ribeiro
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Roman";font-size:12pt">(4) Are there languages without
agreement and without case morphology on nouns that allow
subject-verb inversion with transitive verbs?</span></p>
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<p>Malay/Indonesian would be an example of such a language. For
example, in Jakarta Indonesian, a language without agreement or
cae morphology, a corpus study of two verbs, <i>beli</i> 'buy'
and <i>makan</i> 'eat', found SVO order in 88% and 94% of clauses
containing both arguments, but also VOS order in 7% and 2% of such
clauses. <br>
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style="margin-left:27.35pt;text-indent:-27.35pt"><span
lang="EN-US">Conners, Thomas, John Bowden and David Gil (2015)
"Valency
Classes in Jakarta Indonesian", in A. Malchukov and B. Comrie
eds., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Valency Classes in
the World's Languages</i>,
DeGruyter Mouton, Berlin, 941-986.</span></p>
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<p>I suspect similar facts hold for lots of languages across western
Indonesia.</p>
<p>David<br>
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Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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