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English Word Order Example

Posted: September 7th, 2016, 9:22 pm
by Wes Wood
This is a news article about subconscious English word order rules. I was envious of the sample instructional material. If only I had such a thing for Greek.
http://qz.com/773738/how-non-english-sp ... urce=atlfb

Re: English Word Order Example

Posted: September 7th, 2016, 11:10 pm
by MAubrey
You can file this word order under "things are that kind of true, but not really."

The Language Log gave a post to the tweet that this article is based on: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=27890

Re: English Word Order Example

Posted: September 7th, 2016, 11:49 pm
by Wes Wood
I wasn't under the impression that this was anything other than an amusing story that happens to be largely true. Besides, I have it on good authority that you can make adjectives do whatever you want them to, but you have to mind the verbs. :D

Re: English Word Order Example

Posted: September 8th, 2016, 8:37 am
by Stephen Hughes
Wes Wood wrote:If only I had such a thing for Greek.
People don't seem to discuss word-order for Greek, so much as they discuss parts of speech order.

Re: English Word Order Example

Posted: September 8th, 2016, 11:06 pm
by Wes Wood
Stephen Hughes wrote:
Wes Wood wrote:If only I had such a thing for Greek.
People don't seem to discuss word-order for Greek, so much as they discuss parts of speech order.
Right? :lol: And they seem to analyze sentences with the least distribution of parts of speech possible. With all due respect, though, this type of analysis is an enormous task.