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The study of structural features, diversity and commonalities among the world's languages.
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How usual is it for languages to have both prepositions and postpositions?
German has some postpositions, although they're far less common than the prepositions:
http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/german/grammar/gr-post.htm
Another English example I can think of is "the whol …
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German is SOV: should it not have been "Ich ein Berliner bin"?
@jlovegren's answer is complete, just wanted to add some points.
Another possible reason for German to be mistaken for SOV is that subordinate clauses usually follow a SOV pattern.
Ich weiß, daß ich …
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