[Lingtyp] AV / VS languages

[Riccardo Giomi]

Dear David,

The best example I can cite off the top of my head is Muna (Austronesian), as described in van den Berg's grammar, sections 7.1 and 7.3

Berg, René van den. 1989.  A Grammar of the Muna Language. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 139.) Dordrecht: Foris.

The author gives a good wealth of examples to prove their point that, despite quite some variation, the "basic" orders are VS and SVO. I don't know if this counts as "relatively fixed" constituent order (maybe not, indeed), but you may want to have a look anyway.

Hope this helps!
Riccardo

Riccardo Giomi
Assistant Professor of Functional Linguistics
University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Humanities: Department of Linguistics
Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Subject: [Lingtyp] AV / VS languages

Hi, all

Can anyone point me to some good descriptions of languages with relatively fixed constituent order that have S on the opposite side of the verb from A? Grammars would be preferable, but papers with solid and believable examples would also work.

Cheers,

David
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