Abstract
Based on the word order universals proposed by Greenberg and Dryer, this study examines word order in a series of sentence types found in Shanghai dialect, and demonstrates that pre-verbal patients are objects and not sub-topics. Shanghai dialect is therefore a language of non-canonical SOV order.
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