Mon-Khmer Austro-Asiatic Natural Languages

Paper by Matthew S. Dryer arguing that the assumption that languages tend to be consistently head-initial or head-final is not true, and that verb-object order does not exhibit crosslinguistic correlation with the order of various kinds of modifiers.

• Mon-Khmer Word Order from a Crosslinguistic Perspective - Paper by Matthew S. Dryer arguing that the mon-khmer assumption that mon-khmer languages tend to be consistently head-initial mon-khmer or head-final is not mon-khmer true, and that verb-object mon-khmer order does not exhibit crosslinguistic correlation mon-khmer with the mon-khmer order of various kinds of modifiers.[PDF]

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