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This parameter is restricted by benefactives but not other applicatives in Chichewa, which may reflect linearization along the Bantu animacy hierarchy. This parameter tracks weight and importance in Behaghel’s laws. The dominant form of this parameter is “scrambled” by cleft constructions. This parameter is often “disharmonic” in languages like Uyghur (“WEE-gur”), contra Joseph Greenberg. Three forms of this parameter are found in under five percent of natural languages, (10[1])including Warao (10[2])and the Cariban language (10[2])Hixkaryana (10[1]-5[1])(“hish-car-YAH-nah”). Grammaticalization (10[2])may make this parameter more “fixed,” as in the Germanic V2 principle. Analytic (10[1])languages typically (-5[1])use this parameter (-5[1])and not inflection (10[1])to convey (-5[1])syntactic (-5[1])roles. (10[1])English (10[1])alters this parameter via wh-movement and (10[1])inversion in questions. (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, what parameter most (10[1])commonly takes the form “SOV,” (10[1])or (10[1])“subject-object-verb”? (10[4]-5[2])■END■ (10[3])

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