SOV was the predominant PIE word-order. Of
course there are only six possible permutations of S, V and O, and the three
most common ones _by far_ are SVO, SOV and VSO (there is a universal preference
for placing the subject before the object). This means, among other things, that
chance agreement of word-order types occurs very
often. Piotr
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German
& Dutch are between SVO & SOV (conjugated-verb-second languages, as was
Medieval French AFAIK: first the topic, then the conjugated verb, then the
subject if the first word was not the subject: Tv(S)O(V)). Modern Dutch is more
SOV than Medieval Dutch was. So I don't think there's much Hunnic
influence. Marc
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Of the Germanic languages, English and the Scandinavian
languages
are SVO, and German and Dutch (partially) SOV.
Hunnic, being Turkic, was probably SOV.
On the
Catalaunian Fields, some Germanic tribes fought with Aëthius
and the
Romans, some with Attila and the Huns.
Coincidence?
Adstrate?
I read somewhere that the oldest Runic inscriptions are VSO
and
SOV, later changing to SVO.
Torsten Your
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