Timeline for Origin of current order pattern in English/German
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| May 23 at 8:10 | answer | added | Oliver Wright | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 14, 2021 at 6:12 | comment | added | TKR | @Ned: thanks, you're right of course; not sure where that error came from. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 15:57 | comment | added | Ned | @TKR: Hittite is verb final. In fact most clauses , whether main or subordinate, begin with a conective and end with a verb. | |
| Jul 29, 2014 at 18:50 | vote | accept | ABu | ||
| Jul 28, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | TKR | As another quibble, "topicalization" isn't a good description of the function of verbs in imperative clauses. Such verbs are focal, not topical. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | TKR | I don't see a good reason to suppose that PIE was SOV. Hittite is strongly verb-initial; Greek is so free that there's no good argument for positing a basic order at all; Sanskrit tends more towards SOV, but is still pretty free. If anything, it seems more likely that PIE had highly free constituent order, which ossified into more fixed orders in some of the daughter languages. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 17:02 | history | edited | ABu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:56 | comment | added | fdb | By the way, the English word "actual" does not mean the same as the German "aktuell". The word you need is "current". | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 15:18 | answer | added | user4938 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 28, 2013 at 1:11 | history | edited | acattle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Spelling corrections, made a few different word choices to improve readability.
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| Mar 27, 2013 at 22:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/317046464683581440 | ||
| Mar 27, 2013 at 19:09 | comment | added | jlawler | It is accepted by some. What's more important is that PIE and virtually all its immediate daughters were heavily inflected. This makes word order much less significant, since the constituents are all marked for agreement and can thus be identified by form without requiring word order constraints in the syntax. Standard SOV languages are mostly agglutinative, like Turkish or Japanese; but the more amalgamating, paradigmatic inflection and agreement there is, the less likely there is to be a standard word order. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 15:32 | history | asked | ABu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |