A typological anomaly in some Surma languages

Autores

  • Peter Unseth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32473/sal.v18i3.107473

Palavras-chave:

Surma, Proto-Surma, VSO, post-positions, typology

Resumo

This paper presents evidence that at least three languages in the Surma group (and possibly also Proto-Surma) are exceptions to the proposed typological "universal" that languages with basic VSO word order do not have post-positions [Greenberg 1963:78]. There is no attempt made here to hypothesize how this came about, only to call attention to the fact that these three languages are typologically anomalous.

Downloads

Publicado

1987-12-01

Edição

v. 18 n. 3 (1987): Studies in African Linguistics

Seção

Articles

Licença

 Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication