Word order in Udmurt and in KomiPermyak from a typological view

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Word order in Udmurt and in Komi-Permyak - from a
typological view

• Aim of the presentation by examining two closely
  related languages, to show that
• - Udmurt quite a consistent SOV language with
  mostly modifier-head ordered syntagmas
• - Komi-Permyak SVO/double word ordered language
  with several head-modifier ordered constituents
• Framework word order typology
• - correlation between basic word order and
  internal order of other constituents
• Proto-Uralic, most of the Uralic languages SOV
  mostly modifier-head ordered syntagmas

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Constituents examined by word order typology

• head

• modifier

verb object verb adverb auxiliary verb
complementizer sentence noun genitive noun
adjective noun numeral noun demonstra
tive noun relative clause adposition
(preposition or postposition) noun adjective
adverb adjective standard of
comparison article noun
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Udmurt

• basic word order SOV (SVO is always marked)
• modifier-head order Adj-N, Dem-N, Num-N, Gen-N,
  N-Postp, Adv-Adj, Adv-V, N-Det, Stand-Adj,
  S-Comp, predicate-copula, yes/no question
  particle
• both modifier-head and head-modifier order
  Rel-N/N-Rel, V-Aux/Aux-V

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Komi-Permyak

• basic word order SVO/double word ordered
• modifier-head Adj-N, Dem-N, Num-N, Gen-N,
  Adv-Adj, N-Det, yes/no question particle
• both modifier-head and head-modifier order
  Rel-N/N-Rel, Stand-Adj/Adj-Stand, Adv-V/V-Adv,
  N-Postp/Prep-N(?)
• head-modifier Aux-V, predicate-copula