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**ne... weath  instead of ne... wals niċeo
**ne... weath  instead of ne... wals niċeo
**ne... ċelweac 'not a human' instead of ne... wals niceo
**ne... ċelweac 'not a human' instead of ne... wals niceo
===Syntax===
Since Literary Albionian developed after the VSO word order was stabilized, EMAlb had a vast array of syntactic particles for changing the word order from the default VSO one. To change the word order like Greek, Latin and Hebrew could, one had to rely on particles to front parts of sentences to make them the topic or the focus; such particles and constructions are very common in the Brỷntow Bible, for example. In contrast, Modern Albionian tends to use a fixed VSO order and use intonation or the clitic ''-ṡ'' from ''wêṡ'' 'you know'.
Early Modern Albionian had particles like "est ... -ġ" or ''-stiġ'' from the cleft construction for focus or ''-ti'' from the ethical dative usage of ''ti'' cribbed from Greek and Latin, "tycum + GEN" or "sam + NOUN" for topicalization. There were complicated combinations of those particles with other components of the sentence, creating new function words in the modern literary language. Emphasizing adjuncts and for objects/subjects might have demanded a different particle or construction.