Linguistics
            
    
    Linguistics
            
  
  
          Abstract of the article: 
This paper gives a detailed description of the word order patterns found
among Tibeto-Burman languages. While Tibeto-Burmanists sometimes think that
many Tibeto-Burman languages have some unexpected features for verb-final
languages, this is by and large not the case. For example, verb-final languages in
which one or more noun modifiers (adjective, demonstrative, numeral) follow the
noun are very common elsewhere in the world. It is true that the majority of other
verb-final languages in Asia put all modifiers before the noun, but it is in fact those
other languages which are rather atypical crosslinguistically. The paper has
separate sections on the two groups of languages in Tibeto-Burman which are VO,
namely Karen and Bai. The rest of the paper focuses on the OV Tibeto-Burman
languages, looking at six word order features that are not predictable from a
language being OV, namely (1) adjective and noun; (2) relative clause and noun;
(3) demonstrative and noun; (4) numeral and noun; (5) degree word and adjective;
and (6) negative and verb. The patterns of the distribution of the various types is
discussed in detail, both from a genealogical perspective and from a geographical
one.
      
  
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