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A mostly-analytic language, Eevo (Skellan) is strongly head-initial (with exceptions in poetry). | A mostly-analytic language, Eevo (Skellan) is strongly head-initial (with exceptions in poetry). | ||
==Topic-prominence== | |||
Fundamental to Skellan syntax is its topic-prominence. Sentences usually, but not always, use the following word order in | |||
topic verb ... focus | |||
TODO: topic comment syntax | TODO: topic comment syntax | ||
==Faulty accusative== | ==Faulty accusative== | ||
The faulty accusative particle is ''ym'', which etymologically was a filler word like "um..." It is not a case marker; it comes before a constituent noun phrase X in phrases of the form HEAD Y X, when X is not a prepositional phrase. | The faulty accusative particle is ''ym'', which etymologically was a filler word like "um..." It is not a case marker; it comes before a constituent noun phrase X in phrases of the form HEAD Y X, when X is not a prepositional phrase. | ||