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Peer reviewedDryer, Matthew S. – Journal of Linguistics, 1991
Argues that Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) languages exhibit properties that are consistent with the typology of Lehmann and Venneman in which the basic dichotomy is between Object-Verb and Verb-Object languages and that there is no reason to believe that there are fewer exceptionless generalizations to be made about SVO languages than there are about…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Typology, Language Universals, Sentence Structure
