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Language Typology: English based on Pinker (1997)

Language Typology: English based on Pinker (1997). Isolating vs Inflecting/ Aglutinating Fixed-Word Order vs. Free Word-Order Accusative vs. Ergative Subject Prominent vs. Topic Prominent Pro-drop vs. Non-pro-drop SVO vs OSV Classifier vs non-classifier.

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Language Typology: English based on Pinker (1997)

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  1. Language Typology: English based on Pinker (1997) Isolating vs Inflecting/ Aglutinating Fixed-Word Order vs. Free Word-Order Accusative vs. Ergative Subject Prominent vs. Topic Prominent Pro-drop vs. Non-pro-drop SVO vs OSV Classifier vs non-classifier

  2. Describing and classifying languages

  3. 1a. Isolating

  4. 1b. Inflecting

  5. 1c Agglutinating

  6. 2a. Free word-order

  7. 2b Fixed word order

  8. 3a Ergative

  9. 3b Accusative

  10. 4a Subject-prominent

  11. 4b Topic prominent

  12. 5a SVO language

  13. 5b SOV languages

  14. 6a Classifier languages

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