Kiparsky (1996): "An interesting asymmetry in syntactic change is that OV base order is commonly replaced by VO, whereas the reverse development is quite rare in languages."

Jarraitzen dugu kin Hoeks eta bere artikulua titulatzén "From SOV to SVO" (2016):

It is not inmediately evident however, that word order change actually is driven by functional preferences in the first place. In fact, several explanations have been proposed that explain the shift towards SVO not in terms of functional preferences, but rather by suggesting that this shift is due to contact with other languages. However, with respect to these accounts, Kiparsky (1996) argues that an explanation for the change into SVO cannot be found solely in the influence of other languages, because there seems to be no clear correlation between the degree of contact with SVO languages and the distribution of SOV and SVO languages at all. Exemplary in this argument is Icelandic, a language that changed from SOV into SVO without having any notable contact throughout its history with other languages. [Hoeks, 2016]

Kiparsky-k dio an bere artikulua ("The Shift to Head-Initial VP in Germanic"):

..., the distribution of VO vs. OV within the different branches of the Germanic family correlates poorly with the degree of contact which they have had with VO languages. [...] If contact were the primary cause of the change, we might have expected Dutch and German to have adopted VO and Scandinavian to have retained OV, which is just the reverse of what actually happened. [...] The attribution of the OV to VO shift to borrowing would aIso not explain the slow and steady spread of the change in each of the languages (Santorini 1989, 1993b, Pintzuk 1991, Rögnvaldsson 1993). [Kiparsky, 1996]

Bestalde, Kiparsky dú hasten bere 1996ko artikulua kin hitz hauek:

An interesting asymmetry in syntactic change is that OV base order is commonly replaced by VO, whereas the reverse development is quite rare in languages. [Kiparsky, 1996] 

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