Word Order Change

[Matthew Anstey]

Hi Anna,
 
As Philippe Bourdin pointed out, the Givon reference should have been 1975.
Another article that may be of interest is:
 
Longacre, Robert E. 1995. Left shifts in Strongly VSO Languages. In: Pamela
Downing—Michael Noonan (eds.), Word Order in Discourse, 331-354. Amsterdam:
John Banjamins.
It looks at left-shifting in Chicahuaxtla Trique (Otomanguean), Jur Luwo
(Nilotic), & Biblical Hebrew, all "strongly" VSO languages.
Regards,
Matthew
 
Matthew Anstey
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid
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Subject: Word Order Change


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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