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I'll go now, best of luck with your paper!

take a look at this paper: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/…

(I was done with that turn)

good luck with your paper!

haha, sure

two people suddenly came

you would have to elicit some sentences like

haha

for regular clauses of course

unless you do some left or right dislocation

you definitely can't get VSO, VOS, or OVS

it's not exactly that either

SVO

but this is because when you're taking a typological perspective

Well, from a typological perspective, it's not wrong

two clauses, yeah

btw, about word order, you probably thought Cantonese was SVO right?

right

e.g. you may have figured out that the 'adjectives' are actually verbs

but there would have been other advantages

most obviously, it would have helped you make sense of the focus constructions

yeah

a lot of things would make sense if you did

the fact that you didn't ask for relative clauses is a pretty big gap

oh one more thing

but don't worry about that - it's hard to without having actual texts

and I'm sure you didn't figure out any of the sentence-final particles

and wouldn't make these mistakes

unless you're planning to work on an isolate in a remote area with little language contact, you'd probably read a lot more on languages of the area beforehand

I think most of the mistakes you made were perfectly normal for someone with no background of the language family

yeah

haha

so I can't blame you for making the mistake

I mean, having the same construction for expressing definiteness and indefiniteness is weird

haha yeah

you were probably confident what was going on, and changed two things instead of using a minimal pair

like the town vs village one

is not to be too confident in what you think your analysis is

I think a main thing you can improve

but if it doesn't I believe it was chapter 2 or something

the link should take you to the Cantonese chapter

and from a good linguist (one of my undergrad profs)

though it's not the main focus

this paper discusses causatives somewhat

s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/32571950/…

in the meantime

probably later, I'm going to bed soon

not today though

you can, I'll answer it