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Word-order typology is shown to depend heavily on the differentiation of semantic categories (primarily agent and patient) and syntactic (grammatical) relations. Their confusion may lead to some inappropriate categorizations, in particular as regards OSV languages. In some of the alleged OSV languages, OSV is apparently nonbasic: it results from the fronting of the topical object. Another set of languages is shown to have the passive (that is, PA V) erroneously taken for OSV. OSV has to be researched in Warao and Nadeb; it is posited for Hurrian and Kabardian. Kabardian is shown to be OSV in the following cases: (a) P outranks A in agency; (b) A and P are equal in their high hierarchical rank; (c) the sentence has the predicate in the perfect. The OSV ISOV split is observed in Kabardian, based mainly on the hierarchical features of the NPs in the sentence. The origin of OSV is attributed mainly to the reanalysis of perfect clauses where OSV is shown to be semantically motivated. Frequency of basic word-order types is considered, and reasons for OSV being typologically rare are suggested. This paper presents a study of OSV 1 word order both in general and as it occurs in one particu
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- Author
- MARIA S. POLINSKAJA
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)