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Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
In this Wikipedia article, French, Italian and Spanish are listed as SVO languages, along with English and Chinese. (However, Latin is listed as SOV.)
I am highly confused about such statement. In ...
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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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