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Mon-Khmer Word Order from a Crosslinguistic Perspective - http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/mon.khmer.pdf
Paper by Matthew S. Dryer arguing that the assumption that languages tend to be consistently head-initial or head-final is not true, and that verb-object order does not exhibit crosslinguistic correlation with the order of various kinds of modifiers. |