Re: A late introduction

 --- £ukasz_Korczewski wrote:

> > :)) I had indeed seen that Hattic was VSO (is it common among Slavic
> languages [...] ?
>
> I think in most of Slavonic languages the neutral word order is SVO. However
> the personal endings of verbs allows you usually to omit the subject if it's
> known from the context. It becames VSO mostly in order to stress the verb -
> for example to emphasise the duration of an action (imperfective verbs) or
> its completeness (perfective verbs).
Yes. The case system always makes it clear who is the subject and who is the
object, so one has quite some freedom to emphasize things by shifting word
order a bit. This can easily lead to VSO and in some cases even to VOS.
SOV is not uncommon, too.

Jan

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