1. While everybody agrees (## 893, 11, 13 ) on the OV/agglutination and VO/flection associations, iambic rhythm goes with VO and allied orders and flexive (or no) morphology according to Donegan-Stampe (and, as to VO, also Bally et al., see #675), but with OV and agglutination according to Gil. Also it is iambic rather than trochaic that potentially has more complex syllable structures according to Donegan-Stampe, while Gil (this time in agreement with Bally) has it the other way round. Now, while Donegan-Stampe and Gil agree on the iambic/stress-timing and trochaic/syllable-timing (or also mora-timing) associations, syllable-timed languages have elsewhere been claimed to have simpler syllable structures than stress-timed languages (Bertinetto 1977, 1989; Dauer 1983; Brakel 1985) – which ought to be better news for Donegan-Stampe than for Gil. Further, stress-timing comes with agglutination for Gil, and with flection for Donegan-Stampe. 2. Dryer 1986 concludes from his sample of 506 languages “… there is no evidence of adverbs to precede the adjective in OV languages, and following in VO languages; there is no evidence of any relation between the order of verb and object and the order of noun and adjective; and between the order of verb and object and the order of noun and demonstrative; both orders Rel N and N Rel are common in OV languages ”.
1. While everybody agrees (## 893, 11, 13 ) on the OV/agglutination and VO/flection associations, iambic rhythm goes with VO and allied orders and flexive (or no) morphology according to Donegan-Stampe (and, as to VO, also Bally et al., see #675), but with OV and agglutination according to Gil. Also it is iambic rather than trochaic that potentially has more complex syllable structures according to Donegan-Stampe, while Gil (this time in agreement with Bally) has it the other way round. Now, while Donegan-Stampe and Gil agree on the iambic/stress-timing and trochaic/syllable-timing (or also mora-timing) associations, syllable-timed languages have elsewhere been claimed to have simpler syllable structures than stress-timed languages (Bertinetto 1977, 1989; Dauer 1983; Brakel 1985) – which ought to be better news for Donegan-Stampe than for Gil. Further, stress-timing comes with agglutination for Gil, and with flection for Donegan-Stampe.