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Why are Latin descendants SVO?
Latin was a language which predominant order was Subject-Object-Verb, as in the example proverb Errare Humanum Est
So, why all its modern descendents are predominantly Subject-Verb-Object order? Or ...
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German is SOV: should it not have been "Ich ein Berliner bin"?
German is typically described as a Subject-Object-Verb language. For former American President Kennedy's mistake to be grammatical (i.e. without the indefinite article "ein"), why should it not have ...
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Relationship between SOV word order and osV prefixes
I've been reading about the Native American language isolate Washo, and looking at the Universals Archive. If an ergative language is SOV, the object and subject affixes will be prefixes and the main ...
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