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SUT Flashcards

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Syntactical Universal Tendencies

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  1. If a language is SVO, it has prepositions

2. If a language is SOV, it has postpositions (exc. Farsi)

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Marked

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Rare (nasal vowels, OSV/OVS)

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Genetic Classification

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Based on comparative linguistic reconstruction

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Comparative Linguistic Reconstruction

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Comparison of sister languages to reconstruct the ancestral forms

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Historical Linguistics

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The study of language change

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