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| Nov 4, 2021 at 2:29 | comment | added | Greg Nisbet | You can also combine features. This link combines, for example, the order of object and verb and coding of evidentiality wals.info/combinations/83A_78A#2/18.0/149.4 . Most languages have a feature value for order of object and verb and there aren't many options total so it's a good feature to combine with other things (order of adposition and noun also has lots of data). | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 2:25 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | thats great, thanks very much. I'll brave WALS again | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 23:21 | comment | added | Greg Nisbet | The broad picture of what you're describing, an SOV language with a rigid structure but a lot of clause-initial grammatical morphemes is, I think, somewhat uncommon. I would recommend poking around WALS for examples of languages, for example SOV languages with clause-initial negation or maybe evidentials that are second-position enclitics. A language with the feature you want will sometimes have a reference grammar available if you search for it. Reference grammars are good sources of inspiration. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 23:14 | comment | added | Greg Nisbet | I'm not sure how to answer your follow-up question. There's some natural language precedent already for some of the features you describe individually (clause-initial pronouns, second-position clitics, mandatory subject pronouns even in the presence of a lexical subject). I don't think the exact combination of features you propose is attested, but that's sort of to be expected as you add consider more features together simultaneously. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 22:20 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | Your definitely into something here. I'll have a think. Woul making them or some of the clitics prefixes be plausible? Initial mutation? One last thing, does the distance of the clause-initial pronoun from the verb (which would normally get conjugated) help at all? | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 21:13 | history | answered | Greg Nisbet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |