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SYNTAX
Dixon
Cambridge University Press eBooks14 Dec 1972
NobleIDark:/48914/w1/20260525/A6E65BE2DOI10.1017/cbo9781139084987.005
SYNTAX
Dixon · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1972 · Subscription
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Abstract
In Dyirbal, syntactic relations are marked by case inflections and not by word order; word order is remarkably free. There is a statistically most frequent order (7.8) and this is as a rule followed in the examples below (some of the simpler examples are made up, but all have been thoroughly checked with speakers). It should be borne in mind that in almost all cases the words could be arranged in any order.