Re: [tied] SVO - SOV

--- In cybalist@..., g-tegle@... wrote:

> --- 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.
> >
>
> That is why it is much more interesting to compare the possible

word-

> orders rather than the most common word order between different
> languages. Ofcourse when saying that both English and Scandinavian
> have SVO as the most common word order, it doesn't really tell us
> that much. Even if the Scandinavian languages have the SVO pattern,
> the word order in these languages have more in common with German
> system with SOV than English.
>
>

That's an interesting claim. Would care to elaborate? I thought SVO
was SVO? Does it come in flavors?

Torsten