Object-verb order and adjective-noun order: Dispelling a myth

Matthew S. Dryer

doi:10.1016/0024-3841(88)90059-9

Object-verb order and adjective-noun order: Dispelling a myth

Matthew S. Dryer

Linguistics

University at Buffalo

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It is widely believed (Greenberg (1963), Lehmann (1973), Vennemann (1974)) that there is a relationship between the order of object and verb and the order of adjective and noun, that OV languages tend to be AdjN, while VO languages tend to be NAdj. Evidence against this is presented here from a sample of 316 languages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-217
Number of pages	33
Journal	Lingua
Volume	74
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(88)90059-9
State	Published - Mar 1988

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