[tied] Re: Got to thinkin' about word order

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande"
<aquila_grande@...> wrote:

> The prefered word order in finnish is svo. If the verb is
> intransitive, and the subject is indefinite, vs is the most common
> word order - this is perhaps due to Scandinavian influence. Auto
> tulee - the car is coming. Tulee auto - there is comming a car.
>
> It is difficult to decide what is due to scandinavian influence,

or

> what is inherited FU in the finnish word order. There are few word
> orders in finnish, that do not work well is scandinavian, exept
> perhaps sov that is possible in finnish, but sounds very pecular,

or

> very archaic in a Scandinavian language.
>
>
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, CeiSerith@... wrote:
> > In a message dated 5/1/2003 11:51:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > glengordon01@... writes:
> >

Danish has a three way split:
Han kører en bil : He is driving a car
Han kører bilen : He is driving the car
Han kører bil : He is driving-car, ie. the focus is on the act of
car-driving. German and the other Scanidivian languages have the
same range.

Torsten