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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
Peer reviewedNapoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Examines reflexivization in Italian and demonstrates that the proposals that (1) reflexive pronouns and their antecedents must be clausemates, and (2) the specified subject and tensed-S conditions, cannot be maintained as universals. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Italian, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
