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A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations
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Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region
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Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region
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Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region
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The origin and evolution of word order
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Recent work in comparative linguistics suggests that all, or almost all, attested human languages may derive from a single earlier language. If that is so, then this language—like nearly all extant languages—most likely had a basic ordering of the subject (S), verb (V), and object (O) in a declarative sentence of the type “the man (S) killed (V) the bear (O).” When one compares the distribution of the existing structural types with the putative phylogenetic tree of human languages, four conclusions may be drawn. (i) The word order in the ancestral language was SOV. (ii) Except for cases of diffusion, the direction of syntactic change, when it occurs, has been for the most part SOV > SVO and, beyond that, SVO > VSO/VOS with a subsequent reversion to SVO occurring occasionally. Reversion to SOV occurs only through diffusion. (iii) Diffusion, although important, is not the dominant process in the evolution of word order. (iv) The two extremely rare word orders (OVS and OSV) derive directly from SOV.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198322 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21987807 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113716108
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Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region
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Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region
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In: Department of Anthropology Papers (2011)
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Prehistoric Iberia : genetics, anthropology, and linguistics ; [proceedings of an International Conference on Prehistoric Iberia, held November 16 - 17, 1998, in Madrid, Spain]
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UB Frankfurt Linguistik
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