19-03-2016, 08:09 PM
(19-03-2016, 07:44 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:Yeah, but you avoided responding to the part about how there might be rules affecting word order that we aren't aware of, just as you are avoiding responding to it now.
No, I didn't respond because I didn't see your response. Even now I didn't found your response.
What did you mean with "rules affecting word order that we aren't aware of". The point is that word order is absent for the VMS. With other words there are no rules concerning the word order.
If you think otherwise please demonstrate the rules we aren't aware of.
An example of a rule affecting word order from English would be the different structures used to create declarative sentences vs. questions, e.g. "you have eaten" vs. "have you eaten?" The fact that these two sentences both exist doesn't mean that English has no word order and therefore no grammar.
That's just one example. Word order is used in many different ways in different languages. Your assumption seems to be that languages have a single fixed word order that is used in all cases, and that's wrong.