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===Word Order===
===Word Order===


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Wistanian is predominately head-initial and verb-initial. This is manafested in that particles are always expressed first in a particle phrase (PartP), head verbs are expressed first in a verb phrase (VP), and head nouns are expressed first in a noun phrase (NP).


Wistanian has predominant [[w: Verb–subject–object|Verb-Subject-Object]] word order, modifiers that follow their head, post-positional suffixes, and particles that come before their head. Modifier phrases will usually come at the beginning or end of the sentence.
'''viga dari aa garauda bi.'''
vig-a    dari aa  garauda bi.
eat-DUR  boy  ACC food    goodness
"The boy is eating good food."


  '''azavyi ravu miram wi daz ilam aa naulam ggarauni va din ggaun maumu va zi.'''
This sentence is made up of the following phrases, the heads in '''bold''':
  azavi-i   ravu miram wi  daz ilam aa  naulam ggarauni va  din   ggaun maumu  va  zi.
 
  carry-PFV fast store ADE man young ACC melon  large    COP three BEN  mother COP 3Sa.POSS.
* VP: '''viga'''... garauda
  "The young man quickly carried three large melons to the store for his mother."
* NP: '''dari'''; '''garauda''' bi
*carried fast store to man young melons which.is three large for mother who.is his.
* PartP: '''aa''' garauda
 
Most of time, declarative and interrogative sentences will be expressed as verb-subject-object (VSO). However, imperative sentences use verb-object-subject (VOS). In the formal register of the Western Dialect, the word order changes dramatically into subject-object-verb (SOV), due to the SOV word order of the Bwolotil language spoken in those areas.
 
Phrases that begin with a relativizer particle (See 4.3.3) are expressed at the end of the NP that it modifies. Temporal phrases that begin with the particle '''auv''' (when/during) will typically be expressed at the beginning or end of a sentence, although some dialects and registers allow it after the VP.
 
  '''auv bimaj daridd, auzunwaj aa ujadi va jin, lu.'''
  auv  bima-a  -j   daridd, auzunu-a -j  aa  ujadi va  jin,   lu.
  TEMP fall-DUR-IRR rain,  arrive-DUR-IRR ACC house COP green, 2S.NOM.  
  "When the rain falls, come into the house that is green."


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