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Re: Conlang Typology Survey (partial results)

From:Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
Date:Thursday, May 22, 2003, 8:16
<conlang@...> wrote:

>wait a minute, these percentages don't make sense... there are only 51 >languages, and for word orders, not all of them specified s/v/o orders. i >have the fixed statistics here.
My fault for not specifying the s/o/v equivalent for Tolborese... see below.
>> OVS: 0 (0.0%)
Where I gave Absolutive-Verb-Ergative as the primary order for Tolborese, this means that most transitive phrases come out as Object-Verb-Subject. So you've got at least one OVS. M