Re: Basque Gender Marking (was Re: Further language development Q's)

From:    Rodlox <Rodlox@...>
> > On 28 Sep 2004 "Thomas R. Wier" <wrote:
> > > The same cannot be said of Sumerian:  especially early on, it was
> > > often the case that *no* grammatical elements were written down,
>
> so...no word order?
In many languages, word-order is rather irrelevant to basic
grammatical structures like who-does-what-to-whom.  I'm not
a sumerologist, but I'd assume that very early on, word-order
was not consistently written down, either.

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