Word order

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Word order relates to how words are placed within a sentence, and in which order words are placed within substructures of sentences.

Sentences

In most cases the words of a sentence can be placed in any order, yet the lack of case markings for subject vs object creates a few impossibilities when translating into Delang.

  1. Inanimate object cannot be agent of a sentence.
    A work around exist for this problem, as pronounce may be agent, even if relating to an inanimate object. For example, if you should want to translate the rather bizarre idea the a book, an inanimate object, could read a person, Alfonz, 'the book' would have to be put in a separate relative clause from the rest of the sentence:
The book, it reads Alfonz
Δеліберін, ані сіті Алƒҩнс[1]

Noun phrases

Verb phrases

  1. Here also applies the default word order of agent - [[w:verb|]] - patient.