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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.
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?
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.