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Fundamental to Skellan syntax is its topic-prominence. Sentences usually, but not always, use the following word order in main clauses:
Fundamental to Skellan syntax is its topic-prominence. Sentences usually, but not always, use the following word order in main clauses:


  topic [preverbs] verb syntactic_subject ...  
  topic [preverbs] verb subject ...  


Hence subordinate clauses, which have no topic of their own, use verb-initial word order.
The subject will be a pronoun if the topic is the subject, or if the topic is 1st or 2nd person.
 
As a consequence subordinate clauses, which have no topic of their own, use verb-initial word order.


==Noun phrase==
==Noun phrase==
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