(Komi-Permyak)

SV

SV: The dominant intransitive word order is SV.

(1)medoʒ́komi-ezlokt-ömaśvudapińög
firstkomiplcomepst2.3plVuandPinyög
doröxiiixvivek-kez-öežvakatyt-śań…
to1316centuryplillIzhmaupper_reachesdel
’The Komis first arrived at the bank of the Vu and Pinyög rivers in the 13th–16th centuries from the upper reaches of the river Izhma…’ (Korp_Permyak)

(2)seśśa,vojnakosta,tatćölokt-ömaśroć-ćez…
thenwarduringherecomepst2.3plrussianpl
’Then, during the war, the Russians came here…’ (Korp_Permyak)

In a corpus of 100 sentences based on different sources (Korp_Permyak, Ponomareva 2010) the dominant word order of Komi-Permyak is SV, with 78% of the sentences following this pattern. VS orders are attested only in 22% of the data.

Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás


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