Datapoint Diu Indo-Portuguese/Order of subject, object, and verb

In Diu Indo-Portuguese, SVO is the default word order in the sentence types considered in this feature, although in the actual corpus non-focused, non-topicalized, non-elliptic sentences are relatively rare. A good source for pragmatically unmarked sentences is elicited data, given that the communicative situation normally means all participants in a sentence have a comparable status.

Values

Subject-verb-object (SVO)

Example 39-1:
Ryan tə lãbe biskit.
Ryan
Ryan
tə
ipfv.npst
lãb-e
lick-inf
biskit.
biscuit
Ryan is licking the biscuit.

Source: Cardoso 2004-2008

Example 39-2:
Jacob tə faze vɔs də kɔb.
Jacob
Jacob
tə
ipfv.npst
faz-e
make-inf
vɔs
voice
də
of
kɔb.
snake
Jacob is imitating the voice of a snake (lit. Jacob is making the voice of a snake).

Source: Cardoso 2004-2008

Example 39-3:
El nã sab purtəgez.
El
3
nã
neg
sab
know.npst
purtəgez.
Portuguese
He doesn't know Portuguese.

Source: Cardoso 2004-2008

Example 39-4:
Nĩge nã apiŋo pex.
Nĩge
nobody
nã
neg
apiŋ-o
catch-pst
pex.
fish
Nobody caught fish.

Source: Cardoso 2004-2008

Confidence:
Certain