Word Order Change

[Matthew Anstey]

Hi,
 
It may or may not be relevent to your work, but for a Semitic language there
is:
 
Givón, Talmy. 1995. The drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The
pragmatics of tense-aspect. In: Charles N. Li (ed.), Mechanisms of syntactic
change, 181-254. Austin: University of Texas.
Regards,
Matthew 
 
Matthew Anstey
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid
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Christiane Marchello-Nizia
(ENS LSH Lyon – IUF Paris)
marchell at linguist.jussieu.fr
and
Anna Sorés
(Université Paris X)
anna.sores at net-up.com
 
Dear Colleages,
 
We are working on some types of Word Order Change , in Romance languages and
Finno-Ugric Languages: from SOV to SVO particularly.
In order to develop our corpus, we should like to extend our research to
other cases of such a change (from SOV to SVO, and also from SVO to VSO).
Do you know the same evolution in other languages ? It would be very helpful
for us if you have other examples.
Thank you for helping us.
A.S and CMN
 
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