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VSO: verb - subject - object word order.

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Why do dominant VSO languages all have SVO as an alternative word order?

If you take a Chomskyan view of syntax, it's not possible to get a VSO order without some sort of movement. … A single rule that applies only in certain contexts thus gets us an SVO~VSO alternation. …
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