Re: ? how would you classify this language ?

Rodlox wrote:

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>From: Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:18 PM
>Subject: Re: ? how would you classify this language ?
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>>I'm not sure there's a typical Indo-European word order-- Proto IE is
>>assumed to have been SOV, most of the descendants vary between SOV and
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>SVO.
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> 'vary between'?  what's between them?
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German, I suppose.  SOV, SVO, and VSO are all possible, in various
clauses (Always SVO or VSO in main clauses, though, I think).  That's
called a V2 language, because, as I learnt it, the verb is always the
second concept(except after certain conjunctions, in which case it goes
to the end of the clause).