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 ==Syntax==
 ===Constituent order===
-Canonical word order is VSO.  Nevertheless, SVO, SOV, VOS, OSV, and OVS may appear as the case system allows such flexibility since it explicitly marks syntactic roles.  Modifiers for the most part follow their heads, although determiners and deictics precede their heads.
+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===