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Word order in New Guinea: dispelling a myth

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2005

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Donohue, Mark

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University of Hawaii Press

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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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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/37259

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Oceanic Linguistics

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10.1353/ol.2005.0033

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2037-12-31

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