From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:09:10 -0400, Michelle Bottorff   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
      
   >>> Actually, German would be a better example, it's a strict   
   >>> SOV language (subject-order-verb),   
      
   >> Not really: it's a V2 language, which is something rather   
   >> different.  If it were SOV, the sentence   
      
   > I understand SOV.  V2 is unfamiliar to me.   
      
   Basically it means that the finite verb in a declarative   
   main clause is the second constituent.  The first   
   constituent may be a subject, an object, an adverbial   
   phrase, etc.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)