Was PIE SOV?
Language Log 2025-03-05
Summary:
Danny L. Bate has a new article declaring that "PIE was not SOV" (2/20/25), in which he attempts to demonstrate under three objections why "SOV" is not a useful term for describing and summarizing the word order of Proto-Indo-European clauses: 1. "clausal bias", 2. "changing the subject", 3. "discourse dominates". Before we delve into […]