Re: Word order (Was: Conlangs of mischief (Which in turn was: Re: I'm back!)

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> Indeed - if all arguments are unambiguously marked, then free word order
> is possible. But even then we would not, I think, allow all the words in a
> multi-clausal to disregard clause boundaries, would we?
The size of the human brain being finite, I think we can assume without further
proof that there's a maximal distance a head can be removed from its dependent,
simply because the speakers brain won't be able to store sufficient intervening
text to allow parsing above some limit.

                                           Andreas