Aquila_grande:
>It seems to me that the reason goes as follows, Japanese is SOV,
>Turkish is SOV, Mongolian is SOV, then they all must originate from a
>SOV-language, and they must be related. This is nonsense.
However, if all daughter languages show an SOV word order, then we must
by Occam's Razor accept that the parent language also had an SOV word
order and that there was no change in between because this is the least
assumptive theory.
Ignorance is the true nonsense. We can't just throw away the simplest
solution or accept something more complex without justifying this action
first.
- gLeN
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