One Response to “Order of Subject and Verb”

1. Henry Davis Says:
   November 25th, 2011 at 9:14 am

   There’s another Gitksan~Nisga’a mistake in here. As I commented earlier, these two languages are mutually intelligible ends of the Interior Tsimshianic dialect continuum: they are not going to differ in major typological features.

   In fact, both languages have very strict VSOA order. I’m not sure where the ‘no dominant order’ value comes from for Gitksan, unless the compiler is treating pre-predicative ergative clitics as full arguments (but in that case, French would count as SOV whenever object clitics showed up).

   Henry Davis

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