Re: [tied] SVO - SOV

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> From: tgpedersen@...
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:14 PM
> Subject: [tied] SVO - SOV
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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

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> 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.
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> Piotr
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I must have stumbled on one of those coincidences again. "Chance
agreements of word order types..." tsk, tsk. I suppose you are
referring to that chance similarity of word order in German and Dutch?

Torsten