Word Order in New Guinea: Dispelling a Myth

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  • Mark Donohue
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1. Assumptions about the order of elements. The modal order of elements in clauses in languages from New Guinea is SOV. No one would dispute this, and examples are easy to come by. The following 2ve sentences serve as examples of the wide spread of SOV word order in New Guinea. The examples are from Fore, a Goroka language from the eastern highlands; Lani, a Dani language from the western highlands; Skou, a Skou language from the coast of north-central New Guinea; Kimaama, a Kolopom language from the Frederik Hendrik island on the south coast; and Magi, a language of the southeast of Papua. The 2rst two—and possibly the last two—of these languages are

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تاریخ انتشار 2000