(Meadow Mari)

SV

SV: The dominant intransitive word order is SV.

(1)vlaďimiriza-ž=atmur-a,kušt-a.
Vladimirbrother3SG=PCLsing3SG,dance3SG
‘Uncle Vladimir is also singing and dancing.’ (Arkhangelskiy 2019)

In a 50-sentence sample of the Meadow Mari corpus (Meadow Mari Corpora - Arkhangelskiy 2019), 94% of the sentences (47 sentences) have SV order and 6% (3 sentences) VS order. This indicates that the dominant word order of Meadow Mari is SV.

Author: Bogáta Timár


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