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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: Development of SOV -> SVO Languages
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 23:58:06 GMT
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In article <38qrprINN20ki@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de>,
Martin Weidner <mweidner@spinfo1> wrote:
>While German is still an SOV Language other languages like English
>or French have been SOV and changed 
>to SVO. I'd like to write a paper  of the reasons for this development.
>Does anybody know, if there are papers / books (especially in the
>background of generative grammar) concerning this problem
>
Another book that has some good discussions of this issue (long
with alot of other good stuff) is:

Principles of Historical Linguistics, 2nd Edition
by Hans Henrich Hock

Hmm, there are two ISBN's on the cover:
	ISBN 3 11012962 0
	ISBN 0 89925851 4
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