Abstract: Previous articleNext article No AccessObject-Initial LanguagesDesmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. PullumDesmond C. Derbyshire Search for more articles by this author and Geoffrey K. Pullum Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by International Journal of American Linguistics Volume 47, Number 3Jul., 1981 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/465689 Views: 27Total views on this site Citations: 16Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1981 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Jin-young Tak Is Unish Moving toward Becoming a More Analytic Language?: With Special Reference to Morphological Changes, Journal of Universal Language 21, no.22 (Sep 2020): 147–172.https://doi.org/10.22425/jul.2020.21.2.147Scott Lamanna Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation, (Jul 2020): 106–126.https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.05lamStephen Fafulas, Ricard Viñas-de-Puig Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon, (Jul 2020): 156–190.https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.07fafPamela Munro Field Linguistics, (Mar 2017): 57–73.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119072256.ch4Laura Kalin The syntax of OVS word order in Hixkaryana, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32, no.44 (Jun 2014): 1089–1104.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-014-9244-xMatthew L. Hall, Victor S. Ferreira, Rachel I. Mayberry Investigating Constituent Order Change With Elicited Pantomime: A Functional Account of SVO Emergence, Cognitive Science 38, no.55 (Mar 2014): 943–972.https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12105Michael Barrie Antisymmetry and Dynamic Antisymmetry, Language and Linguistics Compass 6, no.11 (Jan 2012): 21–35.https://doi.org/10.1002/lnc3.319Murray Gell-Mann, Merritt Ruhlen The origin and evolution of word order, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no.4242 (Oct 2011): 17290–17295.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113716108Myung-Hee Kim, Hyun-Hoon Lee Linguistic and nonlinguistic factors determining proficiency of English as a foreign language: a cross-country analysis, Applied Economics 42, no.1818 (Jul 2010): 2347–2364.https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701857960Vladimir Pericliev Universals, their Violation and the Notion of Phonologically Peculiar Languages, Journal of Universal Language 5, no.11 (Jan 2017): 85–117.https://doi.org/10.22425/jul.2004.5.1.85Vladimir Pericliev Economy in formulating typological generalizations, Linguistic Typology 6, no.11 (Jan 2002).https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2002.002Paul Kiparsky The Shift to Head-Initial VP in Germanic, (Jan 1996): 140–179.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9806-9_6Arvilla C. Payne A new dimension for language, Reviews in Anthropology 19, no.1-41-4 (Jul 1991): 281–295.https://doi.org/10.1080/00988157.1991.9977985Lyle Campbell Review of Comrie (): Language Universals and Linguistic Typology, Studies in Language 15, no.11 (Jul 2012): 248–252.https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.15.1.19camLyle Campbell, Vit Bubenik, Leslie Saxon Word Order Universals: Refinements and Clarifications, Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 33, no.33 (Jun 2016): 209–230.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008413100012962Torben Andersen Ergativity in Pari, a nilotic OVS language, Lingua 75, no.44 (Aug 1988): 289–324.https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(88)90008-3