- In syntactic typology, we see other types of differences; some cases that involve the order of words and phrases:
- Whether a language has a fixed word-order or not
- What the fixed word-order of the language is in the first place
- Whether there have to be subject and object Noun Phrases in the first place
- One fact that is clear about English is that major constituents occur in a fixed order:
- Subject Verb Object (SVO)
- Other orders change the meaning; put differently
- The cat chased the dog; and
- The dog chased the cat.
- Describe different events altogether. In English, information about the Subject and the Object requires a fixed syntactic order
- Think carefully about e.g.
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