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Word Order in New Guinea: Dispelling a Myth
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 44, Number 2, December 2005
- pp. 527-536
- 10.1353/ol.2005.0033
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Abstract
It has been claimed that the appearance of SVO order in a non-Austronesian language of New Guinea and its environs is evidence of contact and influence from Austronesian languages. I suggest that, because SVO is an innovative order in Austronesian languages as well, the influence might well be in the other direction, from a period before the popularization of SOV in New Guinea.
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