Desmond C. Derbyshire

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Desmond Cyril Derbyshire (1924–December 19, 2007) was a linguist who specialized in Carib languages.

He is best known for his work on Hixkaryana, known for its Object Verb Subject word order. Derbyshire's study of the language (as a linguist with the Summer Institute of Linguistics) resulted in the first description in the linguistics literature of a language with this word order as its default.

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