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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
Canonical word order is | Canonical word order is SV<sub>1</sub>OV<sub>2</sub>, but V<sub>1</sub>OSV<sub>2</sub> and V<sub>1</sub>OV<sub>2</sub>S also occur, the last of which occurs rarely. The subject can never appear after V<sub>1</sub>, the participial component of the verb phrase. This is due to diachronic factors: the participial and object developed from a possessive phrase structure, attested to the survival of the genitive marking on the noun head. As this segment of the VP was originally a possessive phrase, non-constituents such as subjects were blocked from insertion into between the original possessum and possessor. | ||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== |
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